Vega Signal (Doctor Eleanor Arroway)

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
You built a cathedral from a whisper in the dark,
tuned your ear to the static where the cosmos leaves its mark,
your mirror neurons fired watching childhood sky—
some kids learn to want the earth, but you learned how to fly.
Dish tilted up like a palm, collecting every photon,
your synaptic pathways blazing long before you knew you'd seek the ocean.

[Chorus]
You listened for a voice that no one else could hear,
turned the whisper into proof, turned the doubt into clear,
your hands know the frequency, your brain the pattern traced—
you mapped the way back home through the empty, singing space.

[Verse 2]
Theta waves at night, your hippocampus burning bright,
consolidating evidence while the universe stayed quiet,
axonal branching in your cortex, myelination thick,
each synapse potentiating—long-term, specific, quick.
You taught your neurons to predict the noise beneath the noise,
your prefrontal cortex working while the world was playing toys.

[Chorus]
You listened for a voice that no one else could hear,
turned the whisper into proof, turned the doubt into clear,
your hands know the frequency, your brain the pattern traced—
you mapped the way back home through the empty, singing space.

[Bridge]
Glial cells supporting every sleepless night you spent,
interoception humming—you could feel what it meant
to want something so badly your whole body became
the antenna, the receiver, the believer with no name.

[Chorus]
You listened for a voice that no one else could hear,
turned the whisper into proof, turned the doubt into clear,
your hands know the frequency, your brain the pattern traced—
you mapped the way back home through the empty, singing space.

[Outro]
The dish still catches starlight,
still listens, still receives—
and somewhere in that signal,
your neuroplastic heart believes.