Tell Them I've Had a Wonderful Life

Lyrics

**Central Image: The Ladder (from Tractatus 7 — "what can be said clearly / what must be shown / the ladder you kick away")**

[Verse 1]
You built a ladder rung by rung,
Each word a step toward silence,
Your cortex firing prediction loops—
The brain already knew what couldn't be said—
So you burned the stairs behind you,
Grinning like a man who'd cracked the code.

[Chorus]
You showed us what the tongue can't touch,
The thing that lives between the lines,
Your silence screams louder than our speech,
Your nothing is everything we've missed,
The words fall away and we finally see,
The world that was always beneath.

[Verse 2]
Mirror neurons caught your gesture—
How you sat, how you refused to play,
Your synaptic pruning stripped the excess,
The myelinated pathways firing clean,
No ornament, no wasted synapse,
Just the architecture of what matters.

[Chorus]
You showed us what the tongue can't touch,
The thing that lives between the lines,
Your silence screams louder than our speech,
Your nothing is everything we've missed,
The words fall away and we finally see,
The world that was always beneath.

[Bridge]
Theta waves and interoception—
You felt the body's knowing first,
Your proprioception of the limit,
Where language ends and breath begins,
The unsayable alive in every nerve,
Hippocampal maps of what stays hidden.

[Chorus]
You showed us what the tongue can't touch,
The thing that lives between the lines,
Your silence screams louder than our speech,
Your nothing is everything we've missed,
The words fall away and we finally see,
The world that was always beneath.

[Outro]
The ladder's ash still warm beneath our feet—
We're climbing something you already burned,
And that's the whole game you wanted.

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**Word count: 287 words** ✓