The Karmic Debt (Nemesis)

Lyrics

[Intro]

[Verse 1]
In the shadow of Rhamnous hill, 430 BCE,
where Phidias carved you from Parian marble,
Nemesis, your wheel turns slow.
I feel it in my ventral striatum,
that ancient debt accumulating,
like Hesiod said, circa 750,
deadly Nyx bore you, affliction to men.
Your measuring rod against my synapses,
weighing the dopamine drop when justice calls.

[Chorus]
Oh wheel, spin your karmic thread,
through the insula's fire, retribution's red.
No escape, like the goose fleeing Zeus,
only to meet the swan in twilight dew.
Debt compounds in neural loops,
equity's balance, no reprieve.

[Verse 2]
At twilight, 60 degrees in the temple air,
smell of burnt honey and barley cakes,
offered to appease your whip's lash.
Pausanias wrote in the 2nd century,
of your sanctuary, post-Persian wars,
now in my anterior cingulate,
the error signal flares, demanding pay.
Griffins pull your chariot across my mind's sky,
inescapable as entropy's pull.

[Bridge]

Strange fact, you shifted shapes,
goose to evade, but fate's not fooled.
In my brain's default mode, the furies whisper,
karmic debt in every firing neuron.
No missing voices here, just the echo
of unnamed priests, their chants in the damp stone.

[Chorus]
Oh wheel, spin your karmic thread,
through the insula's fire, retribution's red.
No escape, like the goose fleeing Zeus,
only to meet the swan in twilight dew.
Debt compounds in neural loops,
equity's balance, no reprieve.

[Outro]

Turn once more, Nemesis, in my quiet mind,
karmic debt settled in a perfect sigh.