Volkswagen Camper at Groveland Oaks (Jack Kevorkian)

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Your mirror neurons fire when you witness pain,
The limbic system screaming what your mind won't name,
You mapped compassion through the dark machine,
Built cathedrals where the suffering convene.
Each synapse burned with empathy's refrain,
Teaching us that feeling was not weakness, not in vain.

[Chorus]
You're the threshold between here and letting go,
Where mercy lives in questions no one knows,
The synapses that dared to feel so deep,
You're the conscience we were too afraid to keep.
You're the threshold between here and letting go,
Where mercy lives in questions no one knows,
The synapses that dared to feel so deep,
You're the conscience we were too afraid to keep.

[Verse 2]
Your hands constructed dignity from steel,
The prefrontal cortex wrestling what is real,
Each calculated moment, each design—
A protest written in neuromuscular line.
You proved that strength lives not in turning away,
But standing witness to another's darkest day.

[Bridge]
Your amygdala refused to look away,
When others' dopamine craved the lighter play,
You saw the agony in each patient's eyes,
And built a temple out of difficult goodbyes.
You chose the harder road through all the pain,
While we learned mercy's grammar once again.
Your questions haunted us like sacred fire.

[Chorus]
You're the threshold between here and letting go,
Where mercy lives in questions no one knows,
The synapses that dared to feel so deep,
You're the conscience we were too afraid to keep.
You're the threshold between here and letting go,
Where mercy lives in questions no one knows,
The synapses that dared to feel so deep,
You're the conscience we were too afraid to keep.

[Outro]
The machine still glows beneath the question mark,
Your cathedrals standing luminous and dark,
We're learning what it means to let love go.