Odes to Joy

Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (Canonical) · Track 410 · middle

Villa America

Gerald & Sarah Murphy

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Your hands arranging light on white—
each guest a note you're placing right,
the villa's open arms a stage
where synaptic plasticity rewires the page.
You've built a space where strangers' mirror neurons
fire in recognition, bloom like gardens,
every room designed so theta waves align
between the lonely and the wine.

[Chorus]
You're the architect of rapture,
turning strangers into kin,
threading gold through ordinary capture—
your hands have always known what pulls us in.
Every table set's a prayer,
every sunset's your repair.

[Verse 2]
The cortical remapping happens here—
when someone walks through your front door, their fear
dissolves in how you've mapped the walls,
the terraces, the way light falls.
Long-term potentiation of the heart:
you've rehearsed this art, this neural start,
knowing which stranger needs which song,
which lonely soul has waited long.

[Chorus]
You're the architect of rapture,
turning strangers into kin,
threading gold through ordinary capture—
your hands have always known what pulls us in.
Every table set's a prayer,
every sunset's your repair.

[Bridge]
Your interoception reads the room—
the breath before the bloom,
proprioception of the soul,
you know exactly how to make them whole.
The garden grows because you're listening,
because your axonal branches glisten
with connection's electricity.

[Chorus]
You're the architect of rapture,
turning strangers into kin,
threading gold through ordinary capture—
your hands have always known what pulls us in.
Every table set's a prayer,
every sunset's your repair.

[Outro]
The villa stands still breathing—
your geometry of love still weaving,
each pillar proof that grace is built,
not born without intention's gilt.

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**WORD COUNT: 285 words** ✓
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