We Live in Capitalism (Ursula K. Le Guin)

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Your hand reaches into the dark and pulls out worlds
Each one breathing with its own law, its own hunger
The words don't follow you—you follow them downstream
Into the spaces where language learns to think
Your synapses firing in patterns nobody mapped
Because you were mapping them, naming the unnamed
Hand open, palm up, offering what you discovered

[Chorus]
You speak in the grammar of becoming
Your voice splits the air into possibility
Every sentence is a door swinging both ways
And we walk through together, transformed

[Verse 2]
Mirror neurons firing when you write a stranger's skin
Their proprioception becoming yours on the page
You understand the body's whisper before it knows itself
Axonal branching where empathy grows thick as forests
Long-term potentiation—your readers rewired by what they touch
Each word a synapse strengthened, potentiated, alive
You didn't invent compassion; you made it visible

[Chorus]
You speak in the grammar of becoming
Your voice splits the air into possibility
Every sentence is a door swinging both ways
And we walk through together, transformed

[Bridge]
The gift moves through your hands like electricity
Not magic—something truer, more muscled
Theta waves humming as you dream the next impossible world
Cortical remapping as we read: our brains rewired by your honesty
You prove it can happen—that fiction bends the nervous system toward justice

[Chorus]
You speak in the grammar of becoming
Your voice splits the air into possibility
Every sentence is a door swinging both ways
And we walk through together, transformed

[Outro]
Your hand still reaches into the dark
And we follow it there, learning to see
The worlds you brought back are ours now, unmapped and infinite

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**WORD COUNT: 271 words** ✓