Vanished into Mexico (Ambrose Bierce)

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Your neurons fire like wit across the dark,
Each synapse sparking where you leave your mark,
The smell of you hangs heavy in the air,
Like ozone after lightning, sharp and rare,
You wire my reward pathways when you speak,
The sound of your voice hums low against my cheek,
And dopamine cascades through all I seek,
A warm flush rising slowly through the week.

[Chorus]
You're the signal firing through my brain,
The sweetest charge, the beautiful refrain,
You're the signal firing through my brain,
My axon bends to where you are again.

[Verse 2]
Your laughter rewires my amygdala,
Fear dissolves when you are close to me,
The limbic system spirals, can't explain,
How you've become the center of it all,
Your hands move like a current through still water,
Each gesture traced in slow electrical fall,
The texture of your presence fills the corridor,
A steady pulse that answers every call.

[Bridge]
Light travels faster when you're in the room,
Your presence floods my neural corridors,
The air grows thick and golden like late bloom,
A pressure sweet and heavy at my core,
Each word you speak ignites a thousand stars,
And every touch rewrites my memory,
Your breath against my neck dissolves the bars,
Of every guarded, walled-off part of me,
The warmth you carry lingers on my skin,
Long after you have gone, the signal stays,
A residue of light that glows within,
And maps your shape across my neural haze.

[Chorus]
You're the signal firing through my brain,
The sweetest charge, the beautiful refrain,
You're the signal firing through my brain,
My axon bends to where you are again.

[Outro]
So fire on, beloved, without end,
Let our signals merge and intertwine,
You're the synaptic spark I won't defend.