Never Surrender
Willpowah— DJ Led Growth
Track 5 — 4:15
Instrumental
Verse 1
I... will never surrender
Mi-yiah-yine... pulls in the big spenders
The Devil's Advocate says "ship it, go faster"
The Chief Risk Officer warns of disaster
Caught in the crosshairs of prototypes made
Sprints I have killed, like a debt left unpaid
Whispers of vision and shadows of doubt
Fight in my ribcage, trying to claw out
Pre-Chorus
Every iteration takes a piece of my breath
Every conviction pretends it's the best
Staring at nothing, trying to render
Which of these dreams
I... will never surrender
Chorus
Push—pull—pull—push, drag me under
Flash of a breakthrough, crash of a blunder
Stuck in the tension, the profit gets thinner
Voice in my head keeps calling me "winner"
Scream at the mockups, plead with the charts
Watch every good notion fall apart
Still I'm gripping the spark like a lone defender
I... I will never surrender
Verse 2
Whiteboard prophets call out, "Trust the trajectory!"
Metrics apostles demand, "Find the key metric!"
Roadmap warriors, drawing their lines
Firing their arrows at all of my signs
Shouting suggestions like code in a jar
Begging my mind to declare what we are
"Feature or failure?" the council cries loud
But only my heartbeat can silence the crowd
Pre-Chorus
Every iteration takes a piece of my breath
Every conviction pretends it's the best
Staring at nothing, trying to render
Which of these dreams
I... will never surrender
Chorus
Push—pull—pull—push, drag me under
Flash of a breakthrough, crash of a blunder
Stuck in the tension, the profit gets thinner
Voice in my head keeps calling me "winner"
Scream at the mockups, plead with the charts
Watch every good notion tear my mind apart
Still I'm gripping the spark like a lone defender
I... I will never surrender
Bridge
Oh, this tug-of-war inside me
It blinds me, it tests me, it tries to divide me
Every version of the fix
Wrestles with the current politics
Every voice that claims "I know the way!"
Leaves me with nothing left to say
If I let just one idea descend here
Will it be the one
I should never surrender?
Final Chorus
Push—pull—pull—push, fight gets stronger
Stand in the middle a little bit longer
Trying to choose what the market remembers
Trying to choose what the competition dismembers
Blueprints bleeding all over the charts
Decisions carving into my heart
Still I'm gripping the spark like a lone defender
I... I... I... will never surrender
Outro
Mi-yiah-yine... pulls in the big spenders
But only my soul
Decides the contender