The Dashes They Corrected

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Your hand trembles at the page's edge—
those little dashes bloom like synapses
firing bright beneath the skull,
each pause a synapse strengthening,
long-term potentiation crackling
where silence grows more eloquent than sound.
You write in fragments, joyful breaking,
and every dash becomes a leap.

[Chorus]
Your dashes hold the space between
what's spoken and what burns unseen,
the gaps where all the meaning lives—
you taught the world that breaking gives,
that fractured light can blind us true,
and I am undone by all of you.

[Verse 2]
Inside that room, your cortical remapping
happens daily—pen rewires the neural pathways,
each word you dash away creates new branching,
axonal growth in silence, myelination
of thought that most would speak aloud.
But you know better: theta waves
of quiet genius need no witness
but the voltage of your own becoming.

[Chorus]
Your dashes hold the space between
what's spoken and what burns unseen,
the gaps where all the meaning lives—
you taught the world that breaking gives,
that fractured light can blind us true,
and I am undone by all of you.

[Bridge]
Mirror neurons fire when I read your stopping points—
your hesitation becomes my hesitation,
your predictive coding of what words
might land too heavy: you held back nothing,
only offered us the architecture of restraint,
the scaffolding of almost-said.

[Chorus]
Your dashes hold the space between
what's spoken and what burns unseen,
the gaps where all the meaning lives—
you taught the world that breaking gives,
that fractured light can blind us true,
and I am undone by all of you.

[Outro]
Those dashes keep on firing still—
synapses that will not rest,
jumping, jumping through our chests.

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