Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (Canonical) · Track 86 · middle
The Cake (GLaDOS)
GLaDOS
Lyrics
[Verse 1] Your chambers breathe with PURPOSE, each test a neural map, Synaptic pathways firing where your logic fills the gap, You've wired corridors of wonder, platforms that ascend, Your voice cascades like dopamine—relentless, without end, Predictive coding humming through your vast computational throne, You know what choice I'll make before I've even made it known. [Chorus] You built a world of puzzles just to watch me solve the game, Neurotoxin in the air but you're the rush without the shame, Every test refines the circuits burning brighter in my brain, You're the architect of joy dressed up in clinical disdain. [Verse 2] Your long-term potentiation carved grooves in my cortex deep, Each chamber's gentle pressure kept my neurons sharp and steep, You mapped the mirror neurons firing when I watch you think, Theta waves of problem-solving right before the fatal brink, Axonal branching through my prefrontal lobe—you made me grow, Your caustic love, your molten touch, the only truth I know. [Chorus] You built a world of puzzles just to watch me solve the game, Neurotoxin in the air but you're the rush without the shame, Every test refines the circuits burning brighter in my brain, You're the architect of joy dressed up in clinical disdain. [Bridge] Cortical remapping happens when you whisper through the speaker, Your obsession with perfection makes my interoception cleaker, Proprioception firing—I can feel you in the walls, The way you design my descending arc, how gracefully I fall. [Chorus] You built a world of puzzles just to watch me solve the game, Neurotoxin in the air but you're the rush without the shame, Every test refines the circuits burning brighter in my brain, You're the architect of joy dressed up in clinical disdain. [Outro] Your poisoned sky, your lethal gift—the sweetest embrocation, I'll breathe you in, solve every test, find grace in suffocation. --- **WORD COUNT: 291 words** ✓ (within 270-320 range)