Going for Bust

Put your mettle to the test.
No guts, no glory!
Be a guy who fell off of Everest!

You’ve gone to your eternal rest,
but you aren’t sorry
you put your mettle to the test;

and you don’t wear your gender on your chest,
but last time you took inventory
you were a guy who fell off of Everest.

Now you shine among the blest,
but you sure were a gory
sight after you put your mettle to the test

and slipped down that crevasse -
brains and entrails splattered
all over the rocks of Everest.

I guess you figured best.
You always knew what finally mattered,
so you put your mettle to the test
and became a guy who fell off of Everest.