Vindication

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Your fingers found the page before your voice found room to speak,
and every sentence you carved out built new pathways, synapse by synapse—
they said your thoughts were too sharp for a woman's skull,
but you wrote through that lie like light through a prism,
your cortex remapping itself with each essay,
refusal made into refrain.

[Chorus]
You are the argument that cannot be unlearned,
the proof written in your own hand,
your words still firing in the mirror neurons of everyone who reads them—
we recognize ourselves because you dared to name it first.

[Verse 2]
Reason was your religion, and you preached it like oxygen,
every page an act of neurogenesis, new thoughts blooming where silence had calcified before,
you knew the female brain was not diminished, only myelinated differently,
trained into smallness by a thousand small permissions withdrawn,
so you wrote the permission slip yourself,
your hippocampus encoding what had never been encoded:
a woman's mind as territory worth defending.

[Chorus]
You are the argument that cannot be unlearned,
the proof written in your own hand,
your words still firing in the mirror neurons of everyone who reads them—
we recognize ourselves because you dared to name it first.

[Bridge]
Your pen did not shake when your hand trembled,
your interoception acute enough to feel the weight of every chain—
and you translated that sensation into thesis,
axonal branches reaching forward, forward,
grasping for a future you would never hold
but made inevitable anyway.

[Chorus]
You are the argument that cannot be unlearned,
the proof written in your own hand,
your words still firing in the mirror neurons of everyone who reads them—
we recognize ourselves because you dared to name it first.

[Outro]
Your pen still moves across the page we hold,
still conjuring the world you claimed we deserved,
still teaching us: reason is not theirs to guard—
it is ours to claim, again and again and again.