Midnight in Every Direction (Michel Siffre)

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
You descended into stone where light forgets its name,
your circadian rhythm unspooling like a thread,
hippocampal neurons firing in the dark,
mapping time with nothing but your heartbeat and your breath,
sixty days of self-becoming in the cave's embrace,
teaching us that rhythms live inside the body's own.

[Chorus]
You went down where the world goes still,
lived by nothing but your inner will,
your synapses rewired what we thought was true—
time's not out there, time lives in you,
time lives in you.

[Verse 2]
Cortical remapping happened in that isolation deep,
theta waves your only clock, theta waves your only friend,
long-term potentiation building memories of day
though no sun arrived to sketch it on your skin,
your body keeping time like it was made of brass and light,
proving we're not slaves to what the world insists is real.

[Chorus]
You went down where the world goes still,
lived by nothing but your inner will,
your synapses rewired what we thought was true—
time's not out there, time lives in you,
time lives in you.

[Bridge]
The cave became your laboratory, stone your second skin,
your neurons learning how to dream without the solar spin,
neurogenesis blooming in the dark like urgent flowers,
you were mapping all the hours hiding in your cells,
proprioception singing what the surface world forgot.

[Chorus]
You went down where the world goes still,
lived by nothing but your inner will,
your synapses rewired what we thought was true—
time's not out there, time lives in you,
time lives in you.

[Outro]
Now every breath we take belongs to you somehow,
your limestone cathedral taught us how to trust the inner now,
you came back up still smiling, holding time like it was yours.

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