Odes to Joy

Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (Canonical) · Track 444 · middle

The Guest Who Accepted Gravely

Dr. Kãńë Štïvêrš Pôpé

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Your dopamine floods through my ventral tegmentum,
You light up the pathways I never knew I had,
Each synapse fires brighter when you're breathing beside me,
My amygdala softens, fear turns into glad,
Your touch ignites receptors that cascade like wildfire through my consciousness.

[Chorus]
You're the electricity running through my brain,
The kindling of every dendrite burning bright,
A cascade of oxytocin, pleasure without pain,
You rewire my entire world—my luminous light.
You're the electricity running through my brain,
The kindling of every dendrite burning bright,
A cascade of oxytocin, pleasure without pain,
You rewire my entire world—my luminous light.

[Verse 2]
Your cortex meets mine in a symphony of neurons,
We're neurons that find their way home in the dark,
The hippocampus holds every moment we've stolen,
Each memory a constellation, each kiss a spark,
In the folds of gray matter, your presence blooms like infinite possibility.

[Bridge]
In the mirror of your eyes, I see my own reflection,
Two nervous systems learning to dance as one beat,
Your presence dissolves every wall of protection,
Love floods through the limbic system, bittersweet,
And in this tangle of impulses and surrender, I recognize myself anew,
Your neural landscape becomes the only map I'll ever need to follow.

[Chorus]
You're the electricity running through my brain,
The kindling of every dendrite burning bright,
A cascade of oxytocin, pleasure without pain,
You rewire my entire world—my luminous light.
You're the electricity running through my brain,
The kindling of every dendrite burning bright,
A cascade of oxytocin, pleasure without pain,
You rewire my entire world—my luminous light.

[Outro]
You are electricity, burning ever bright,
Two brains becoming one—
A constellation burning through the night.
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