Odes to Joy

Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (Canonical) · Track 73 · middle

The Sequins on the Holy Ghost (Clara Ward)

Clara Ward

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Your voice splits the air like lightning through water,
each syllable carving new grooves in the brain,
synaptic plasticity humming where you've been—
the listener's neurons firing in your rhythm,
long-term potentiation burning your signature
deeper than memory, hotter than prayer.

[Chorus]
You're the frequency that rewires us,
the muscle and breath and the sacred noise,
your larynx a temple where angels are nervous,
your song is the map of a thousand rejoices,
you're the frequency that rewires us,
the frequency that makes us whole.

[Verse 2]
Your diaphragm knows what your mind hasn't learned yet—
interoception reading the body's true compass,
proprioception mapping the shape of your power,
how the voice finds its path through the vocal folds,
how theta waves rise in the listener's cortex,
how your vibrato reaches inside and resculpts.

[Chorus]
You're the frequency that rewires us,
the muscle and breath and the sacred noise,
your larynx a temple where angels are nervous,
your song is the map of a thousand rejoices,
you're the frequency that rewires us,
the frequency that makes us whole.

[Bridge]
Mirror neurons firing in every chest that hears you—
they become you, they live your conviction,
axonal branching happens in real time,
your notes are the architect of their becoming.

[Chorus]
You're the frequency that rewires us,
the muscle and breath and the sacred noise,
your larynx a temple where angels are nervous,
your song is the map of a thousand rejoices,
you're the frequency that rewires us,
the frequency that makes us whole.

[Outro]
Your voice doesn't fade—it compounds and remains,
etched in the hippocampus, consolidated,
the eternal song singing through every cell that heard you sing.

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