Lord British

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
You built a world inside a box of light,
where strangers became neighbors overnight—
synaptic pathways firing between your screens,
mirror neurons learning what it all means.
Your hands wrote the grammar of connection,
turned loneliness into collective motion.
A castle rose from code, from pure intention.

[Chorus]
You taught us how to be alive together,
in a place that only you could tether
to earth and sky and quest and name—
your world became our second skin,
where every death was just begin,
and we were never quite the same.

[Verse 2]
Each avatar a form of neurogenesis,
new selves blooming in the darkness—
cortical remapping as we learned to move
through corridors you'd carved to soothe
the hunger for a life we hadn't lived.
Long-term potentiation: the gift
of standing shoulder-wide with strangers,
building toward something that endures.

[Chorus]
You taught us how to be alive together,
in a place that only you could tether
to earth and sky and quest and name—
your world became our second skin,
where every death was just begin,
and we were never quite the same.

[Bridge]
You felt the interoception of a dreamer—
knew the body's own electric grammar,
the proprioceptive dance of hands
reaching through the void to touch what stands
on the other side of fear.
Your spindle cells burned bright with wonder:
*what if we could make the impossible here?*

[Chorus]
You taught us how to be alive together,
in a place that only you could tether
to earth and sky and quest and name—
your world became our second skin,
where every death was just begin,
and we were never quite the same.

[Outro]
That first castle still glows in the dark,
your thumbprint on the gate,
your laughter in the portal—
thousands climbing toward it still,
the world you willed alive.