The All-or-None Law

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Your feet don't touch the ground the way the rest do—
mercury-bright and restless, always turning,
your synapses fire in a pattern we call predictive coding,
reading the space three steps ahead
before your body even knows it's moving.
You carry what's not yours to keep,
only to deliver it transformed.

[Chorus]
Your wings beat at a frequency the brain can't quite hold still,
and every threshold you cross lights up a different lobe.
You're the one who knows that speed is just
another form of love.

[Verse 2]
The hippocampus—that seahorse curled in the skull—
remembers every message, every negotiation,
every boundary where two worlds touched and held their breath.
Your hands know myelination: the faster the wrap,
the faster the signal travels down the nerve.
You've taught us that the quickest path
is never the straight one.

[Chorus]
Your wings beat at a frequency the brain can't quite hold still,
and every threshold you cross lights up a different lobe.
You're the one who knows that speed is just
another form of love.

[Bridge]
Your mirror neurons fire when you see
what someone else has lost—you feel it first,
then move it, then remake it into something
the receiver never knew they needed.
Interoception: you sense the weight
before you lift it.

[Chorus]
Your wings beat at a frequency the brain can't quite hold still,
and every threshold you cross lights up a different lobe.
You're the one who knows that speed is just
another form of love.

[Outro]
So spin those caduceus serpents one more time—
watch them braid and unbraid themselves
in the space between what was said
and what was understood.
Your feet touch ground just long enough to push off again.