Double or Nothing

Lyrics

[Intro]

[Verse 1]
KRARK:
They took my thumbs on a hellion race,
so I cut one loose and I kept it for luck.
Every spell I throw, I'm flipping a coin —
heads it comes back doubled, tails I just don't give it up.
I climbed down the middle of a world made of steel
on a double-or-nothing, the longest of odds,
and the only thing I trust in this whole rusted dark
is the spin of a wager and the laughing of the gods.

[Verse 2]
SAKASHIMA:
I was born a nobody, a face in the crowd,
and a face in the crowd is a slow kind of grave.
So I painted on another and I learned to forget
the man underneath, and the name that he gave.
I can be the hero standing next to you,
breathe when he breathes and strike when he strikes —
and the world looks twice and it cannot decide
which one of us is real, and it lets us both alike.

[Pre-Chorus]
KRARK: I am chance —
SAKASHIMA: I am the mask —
KRARK: lose it all —
SAKASHIMA: or wear a thousand —
BOTH: come and ask.

[Chorus]
KRARK: Heads or tails —
SAKASHIMA: which face today —
KRARK: I'll bet my bones —
SAKASHIMA: I'll wear yours away —
BOTH: One trusts the spin and one trusts the lie,
and either way we're walking out alive.
KRARK: Double it down —
SAKASHIMA: or double the man —
BOTH: two empty hands and a perfect plan.

[Verse 3]
KRARK:
They called it heresy, they called for my head,
'cause I told 'em the truth: that the world's hollow-hearted.
Well they buried me down but the bet still paid —
they pray to my journal where the whole thing started.
I never met a danger I wouldn't shake hands with,
never met a coffin worth slowing down for —
so flip it again, friend, flip it again,
'cause a goblin with nothing's got nothing to lose more.

[Verse 4]
SAKASHIMA:
I slipped into the spirit-realm wearing a kami,
just to see if the gods could tell me apart.
And the funny thing is, I don't miss my own face —
who needs the one you're born with when you've memorized the art?
I wonder how the rest of you bear it,
the same tired mirror every single day,
when there's a thousand lives you could borrow and burn —
so I pick up another, and I slip away.

[Bridge]
KRARK: You hide who you are —
SAKASHIMA: you gamble what's left —
KRARK: a thumb on a string —
SAKASHIMA: a face I forget —
KRARK: but you stand at my table —
SAKASHIMA: and you spin when I deal —
BOTH: two liars, two losers, and one perfect deal.

[Final Chorus]
KRARK: Heads or tails —
SAKASHIMA: which face today —
KRARK: I'll bet my bones —
SAKASHIMA: I'll wear yours away —
BOTH: One trusts the spin and one trusts the lie,
and either way we're walking out alive.
KRARK: Double it down —
SAKASHIMA: or double the man —
BOTH: two empty hands and a perfect plan.

[Outro]
KRARK: Call it.
SAKASHIMA: Already did.
BOTH: Double or nothing — and nothing to lose.