The Mercury He Drank to Live Forever

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Eight thousand souls in clay, your fingers read the ground,
each warrior's face a mirror-neuron echo of your own,
you dreamed them into being, synaptic storms alive,
the hippocampus etches: *build, protect, endure*,
and still they stand in rows, mouths open to the sky,
your vision made of earth and want and perfect, endless sight.

[Chorus]
You built an army out of dirt and need,
a threshold crossed where vision becomes seed,
your hands that shaped the world now shape my breath,
you fused the living with the monumental flesh,
the terra speaks your name in every grain,
you made the empire touch the sacred, strange.

[Verse 2]
Long-term potentiation firing through your waking mind,
the cortical remapping of a empire into form,
your axons branch like roots through every servant's hand,
each stroke a prophecy of stone, of walls that climb,
myelination fast as thought—your urgency becomes the blueprint,
the terra knows your hunger, holds your shape.

[Chorus]
You built an army out of dirt and need,
a threshold crossed where vision becomes seed,
your hands that shaped the world now shape my breath,
you fused the living with the monumental flesh,
the terra speaks your name in every grain,
you made the empire touch the sacred, strange.

[Bridge]
Your interoception reads the soil like scripture,
the proprioceptive fever of a body making world,
neurogenesis blooming in the workshops where clay breathes,
you knew before you knew: the earth remembers everything.

[Chorus]
You built an army out of dirt and need,
a threshold crossed where vision becomes seed,
your hands that shaped the world now shape my breath,
you fused the living with the monumental flesh,
the terra speaks your name in every grain,
you made the empire touch the sacred, strange.

[Outro]
Still standing in the pit, your soldiers wait for orders,
their ceramic eyes turned upward to the distance,
your vision never fading, only settling deeper into earth.

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