The Tower at Bollingen

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
You descend where the rational mind won't follow,
into the basement chambers of the psyche—
your hand reaching for the dark twin,
the animal we keep in the cellar,
teaching us that wholeness means befriending
what we've buried in the basement of ourselves.

[Chorus]
You hold the mirror up and watch it glow,
the shadow dancing where the light won't go,
you teach us that the monster and the saint
are braided in the same electric cord—
you're mapping constellations in the night,
you're making monsters sing.

[Verse 2]
Your theories live in the corpus callosum,
bridging left and right hemispheres—
your synaptic plasticity rewired how we see,
long-term potentiation of the dream,
the unconscious firing axonal branches
toward a self we didn't know we needed.

[Chorus]
You hold the mirror up and watch it glow,
the shadow dancing where the light won't go,
you teach us that the monster and the saint
are braided in the same electric cord—
you're mapping constellations in the night,
you're making monsters sing.

[Bridge]
Your neurogenesis sparked in the collective places,
where myth and mind electrify together,
where the dream becomes the architecture,
and the shadow stops being something to flee
and becomes the other half of breathing—
the interoception of the species waking up.

[Chorus]
You hold the mirror up and watch it glow,
the shadow dancing where the light won't go,
you teach us that the monster and the saint
are braided in the same electric cord—
you're mapping constellations in the night,
you're making monsters sing.

[Outro]
So we descend with you into the dark,
holding hands with what we feared,
and it grins back—alive, essential, whole.

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**WORD COUNT: 307 words** ✓