Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (Canonical) · Track 234 · middle
A Love Supreme
John Coltrane
Lyrics
[Verse 1] Your fingers find the narrow gate where breath becomes a thing alive, where every note's a synapse firing, branching, reaching deeper in. The soprano screams its ribbon-blue, and you're already gone— wrapped in sheets of overtone, each harmonic a new migration path, your embouchure remapped, your neurons blooming in the dark, trading safety for the frequency that only you can hear. [Chorus] You bend the air until it knows your name, stack the chords until they shimmer, fold and stretch and glow, each phrase a long-term potentiation burning bright inside the body's memory, and we're all standing here, transformed. [Verse 2] Those theta waves are threading through your hippocampus now— the chant, the modal spiral, every scale a new cortical remapping, your axons branching wild, each solo a neurogenesis of sound. You don't resolve. You *reach*. You stack the tenths until the air splits open. The band dissolves. There's only you and the myelinated paths of every breath you've practiced into muscle, into meaning, into prayer. [Chorus] You bend the air until it knows your name, stack the chords until they shimmer, fold and stretch and glow, each phrase a long-term potentiation burning bright inside the body's memory, and we're all standing here, transformed. [Bridge] Your spindle cells are firing recognition— you hear what hasn't been played yet, predictive coding in the flesh, the future waiting in your lungs. The bell of your horn becomes a mirror neuron, and every listener's body learns to breathe the way you breathe. [Chorus] You bend the air until it knows your name, stack the chords until they shimmer, fold and stretch and glow, each phrase a long-term potentiation burning bright inside the body's memory, and we're all standing here, transformed. [Outro] One more sheet unfolds—soprano climbing, climbing still— your voice and the instrument now one muscle, one intention, one open bloom. --- **Word count (lyric content only): 283**