Odes to Joy

Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (Canonical) · Track 446 · middle

The Chute She Walked Through First

Temple Grandin

Lyrics

**[Verse 1]**
Your mind builds cathedrals in the space where others see walls,
Visual cortex painting pictures that you turn into blueprints and calls,
You think in the language of images, sensory maps so alive,
Where neurotransmitters dance like light through a prism you've survived.

**[Chorus]**
You're a different wavelength, and you've taught the world to see,
How your brain's rewired pathways light up differently,
You're a different wavelength, and I'm mesmerized, it's true,
'Cause the way you process wonder makes me believe in you.

**[Verse 2]**
Your hippocampus holds cathedrals—Gothic, soaring, supreme,
Sensory details crystallized into something almost a dream,
You've wired compassion into steel, gentleness into machines,
Proving that the mind that works sideways sees furthest in between.

**[Bridge]**
Mirror neurons firing across the space where we meet,
Your empathy translates through every gesture, concrete and sweet,
The amygdala's fear becomes your strength's foundation stone,
Turning every limitation into territory all your own.

**[Chorus]**
You're a different wavelength, and you've taught the world to see,
How your brain's rewired pathways light up differently,
You're a different wavelength, and I'm mesmerized, it's true,
'Cause the way you process wonder makes me believe in you.

**[Chorus]**
You're a different wavelength, and you've taught the world to see,
How your brain's rewired pathways light up differently,
You're a different wavelength, and I'm mesmerized, it's true,
'Cause the way you process wonder makes me believe in you.

**[Outro]**
Those cathedrals in your mind still stand,
Illuminated by the strength of your own hand,
Your wavelength changes everything.
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