Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (Canonical) · Track 362 · middle
Deeper Than Greed Intended
Flame of Udun
Lyrics
**CENTRAL IMAGE:** The volcanic eruption itself — molten force breaking through stone, world-shaping, irreversible, alive with transformation --- [Verse 1] You split the mountain open with your tongue of light, each word a lava tongue that wouldn't cool or dim— the rock remembers you, the ash remembers, and every listener's mirror neurons fired in unison, watching you become the thing you spoke: unstoppable, molten, *real*. [Chorus] You taught us how to burn without apology, how the hottest thing alive demands its passage through, how a voice can remake the world's architecture just by refusing to be small. [Verse 2] Your synaptic storm rewired what we thought was fixed— long-term potentiation flowering in every synapse that touched your frequency, your theta-wave velocity, your cortical remapping of what a human sound could *be*. You didn't perform eruption; you *were* it— axonal branching at the speed of molten stone. [Chorus] You taught us how to burn without apology, how the hottest thing alive demands its passage through, how a voice can remake the world's architecture just by refusing to be small. [Bridge] Your interoception perfect—you felt every degree of your own fire, proprioceptive genius knowing exactly where the heat lived in your chest, spindle cells firing recognition: *this is mine, this is true*, glial cells supporting every burnished syllable. You didn't ask permission from the cool stone— you *became* the pressure that transforms it. [Chorus] You taught us how to burn without apology, how the hottest thing alive demands its passage through, how a voice can remake the world's architecture just by refusing to be small. [Outro] And still the mountain smokes where you spoke through it, still the ash settles in a new geography, still the stone remembers what molten feels like— and so do we.