Retrograde Roulette

Retirement plans are for people who plan on getting old. This is a song for the more stylish exit strategy: cashing out, pointing your ship at the biggest, emptiest part of the map, and flooring it. It's a cosmic road trip with no destination, a full tank of gas, and a healthy disregard for warning signs. Heaven is boring, anyway.

A tribute to every space cowboy, freelancer, and pilot who decided to just keep flying.

Song by: Dead Channel Audio

Lyrics:
[Verse 1]
Polished the chrome on the dashboard today.
Watching the blue marble fade far away.
Got a trunk full of credits and nothing to buy.
Just a transistor radio watching the sky.
Flipped the switch on the analog drive.
Never felt quite so dangerously alive.
The dial is spinning, the needle is red.
Leave the debt and the doubt for the living dead.

[Pre-Chorus]
I don't need a map, I don't need a course.
Riding a rocket with a million horse.
Give me the vacuum, give me the freeze.
I’m doing exactly whatever I please.
Is it a wall? Is it a gate?
Only one way to negotiate.

[Chorus]
Set the controls for the heart of the night!
Out of the signal, out of the light!
If I burn up, well, at least it was gold.
Better to vanish than ever get old.
Spinning the wheel in the gravity well.
Heaven is boring, I’m coasting to hell!
Into the nothing!
Yeah, into the nothing!

[Verse 2]
They say there’s monsters out here in the deep.
Well, I got some secrets I promised to keep.
Maybe I’ll find me a planet of glass.
Or maybe a solar flare kicking my ass.
The coffee is cold and the whiskey is neat.
Got my boots up on the pilot’s seat.
Let the hull rattle, let the bolts fly.
It’s a hell of a beautiful day to die.

[Bridge Vocals]
Cash out!
Blast off!
Sign off!
Get lost!

[Chorus]
Set the controls for the heart of the night!
Out of the signal, out of the light!
If I burn up, well, at least it was gold.
Better to vanish than ever get old.
Spinning the wheel in the gravity well.
Heaven is boring, I’m coasting to hell!
Into the nothing!

[Outro]
Keep the change.
Yeah... keep the change.