You built a throne from borrowed phrases

Crowned yourself in counterfeit gold

Spoke in tongues of scholars and sages

While your hands were trembling cold

You lit a fire with second-hand scriptures

Watched the smoke curl into praise

Every answer just a mirror

Hiding the doubt you wouldn't face

If you confess you're hollow

The silence might expose you

So you sharpen every shadow

Until the lie becomes holy

So you double down

On the ground you've never known

Plant your flag in shifting sand

And call it stone

You double down

Let the thunder drown the sound

Of every whisper in your lungs

Saying you don't understand

But you won't back out now

No, you double down

You wear conviction like a dagger

Press it gently to your chest

Every question makes you stagger

So you preach it louder than the rest

Build a cathedral out of echoes

Stained glass made of pride

If you keep your voice crescendo

Maybe truth will step aside

If you kneel to reason

The altar cracks beneath you

So you bleed for treason

Just to keep them believing

So you double down

On the ground you've never known

Plant your flag in shifting sand

And call it stone

You double down

Let the choir drown the sound

Of every fracture in your faith

Begging to be found

But you won't back out now

No, you double down

You are the architect of empty rooms

Singing hymns you never learned

Feasting on a fragile truth

While the real one slowly burns

Say it again, say it again

Until it feels like flesh and bone

If you repeat it long enough

Maybe it becomes your own

So you double down

On a crown you didn't earn

Baptize your doubt in gasoline

And watch it burn

You double down

Let the heavens shake the ground

If you are wrong, then let you fall

But never turn around

You double down

You double down

You double down