The Ghost in the Room

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Your hand closes around the band of power,
and the light bends away from your skin—
no mirror returns you, no eye holds your form.
The world keeps its shape while you slip through its seams.
Your cortex remaps in real time: proprioception rewired,
the body's own map blooming new pathways
where visibility used to anchor you.
You move through the chamber like a thought
that nobody's thinking.

[Chorus]
You've learned what it means to be unwatched,
to feel the synaptic cascade of vanishing,
the long-term potentiation of being seen by no one—
and still you're *here*, still you're burning,
still you're reaching through the dark to touch what's real.

[Verse 2]
Your mirror neurons fire in a room with no mirrors.
The predictive coding that usually binds you to faces
shatters into silence. No feedback loop.
Your interoception—that inner sense of your own edges—
begins to dissolve. Are you still there?
Your axons branch into new architectures,
myelination racing along uncharted routes.
You could do anything. No one would know.
And the wanting blooms bigger than the hiding.

[Chorus]
You've learned what it means to be unwatched,
to feel the synaptic cascade of vanishing,
the long-term potentiation of being seen by no one—
and still you're *here*, still you're burning,
still you're reaching through the dark to touch what's real.

[Bridge]
But you chose the throne.
You chose to be *known* again—
to let the light find you, to let the glial cells settle,
to trade the ring's amnesia for the weight of a crown.
That's the bravest synapse: firing toward the world.

[Chorus]
You've learned what it means to be unwatched,
to feel the synaptic cascade of vanishing,
the long-term potentiation of being seen by no one—
and still you're *here*, still you're burning,
still you're reaching through the dark to touch what's real.

[Outro]
The ring sits empty on the stone.
Your hand, visible and trembling, reaches back toward it—
not to wear it again,
but to feel, one last time,
the shape of what you almost became.