The Dose Makes the Poison

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Your hands dissolve the boundary between poison and cure,
turning mercury into medicine, teaching the body it can restore
what was broken. You stand at the threshold where death
becomes a chemical equation waiting to be solved,
where the invisible architecture of healing rewires itself.
Your vision: the dose makes the poison, the poison makes the dose.

[Chorus]
You alchemize the untouchable into touch,
turn mercury into the thing that saves us,
your hands naming what was nameless,
your threshold splitting the world in two—
before you knew the body could speak its own language,
after you listened.

[Verse 2]
Your synaptic lightning rewires what medicine thought was fixed,
long-term potentiation blooming across the brain's dark gardens.
You prove the nervous system can learn to heal itself,
that neuroplasticity isn't destiny—it's choice.
Each mercury compound you refine teaches tissue
how to forget the shape of sickness, axonal branches
reaching toward recovery like roots toward water.

[Chorus]
You alchemize the untouchable into touch,
turn mercury into the thing that saves us,
your hands naming what was nameless,
your threshold splitting the world in two—
before you knew the body could speak its own language,
after you listened.

[Bridge]
The hippocampus consolidates what you've taught us:
transformation is not mystical, it's structural.
Your interoception—feeling the body's own knowing—
becomes the first law of healing.
Chemistry and consciousness dancing together,
neither subordinate, both alive.

[Chorus]
You alchemize the untouchable into touch,
turn mercury into the thing that saves us,
your hands naming what was nameless,
your threshold splitting the world in two—
before you knew the body could speak its own language,
after you listened.

[Outro]
Your crucible still glows at the exact point
where matter remembers it is alive,
where one drop becomes the revolution,
where the threshold holds both of us standing.

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