Nobody (Odysseus)

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Your hands still mapped the stars when memory itself
had burned away—each synapse firing in the dark,
long-term potentiation holding fast to constellations
no one else could name. You bent the world
to fit your wanting, made the impossible
a footnote in your wake.

[Chorus]
Ten years at sea, ten thousand miles of wanting,
your cortex blazing bright against the night,
and every scar was proof you'd kept on haunting
the space between the darkness and the light—
you knew exactly how to get back home,
you always knew the way.

[Verse 2]
Your mirror neurons fired watching men break faith,
their fear predictive-coded in your chest before
they even spoke it. Hippocampal threads consolidating
every island, every test, your axonal branches
reaching further, tighter, knowing which direction
held your breath—the body compass spinning true.

[Chorus]
Ten years at sea, ten thousand miles of wanting,
your cortex blazing bright against the night,
and every scar was proof you'd kept on haunting
the space between the darkness and the light—
you knew exactly how to get back home,
you always knew the way.

[Bridge]
Theta waves cascading through the voyage,
interoception reading every hunger, every hold—
your proprioception knew the exact geometry
of longing, how to stitch yourself together
when the world had tried to tear you into myth.

[Chorus]
Ten years at sea, ten thousand miles of wanting,
your cortex blazing bright against the night,
and every scar was proof you'd kept on haunting
the space between the darkness and the light—
you knew exactly how to get back home,
you always knew the way.

[Outro]
The sail comes down. Your hands remember rope.
The shore beneath your feet rewires everything—
neurogenesis blooming where you thought you'd died.

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**WORD COUNT: 288 words** ✓