L'Équilibre en Mouvement

Lyrics

[Intro]The air is still today.No wind in the curtains.But I feel you, in here...Already battening the hatches.[Verse 1]The forecast is clear.The calendar page, a placid blue.But the lookout in the prefrontal towersees a smudge on the horizon of the next hour.A pressure drop no barometer can register.A phone that hasn't rung yet,but the ghost of its ringing is already in your bones.You don't wait for the thunder.You begin.[Chorus]This is the moving balance.L'équilibre en mouvement.Achieving stability by changing everything.The body shifting before the wind hits.Anticipating the rain, you raise the shield.Not homeostasis.This is the wisdom of the wave you ride before it breaks.[Verse 2]A signal flashes down the hypothalamic highway.The pituitary, a quiet operator, puts the call through.And deep in the engine room,the adrenals spark to life,flooding the decks with cortisol and fire.The taste of metal on my tonguebefore I even walk to the podium.My heart, a frantic telegraph,sending a message I haven't written yet.Peter Sterling knew. Joseph Eyer saw it in nineteen eighty-eight.The body's a prophet.[Chorus]This is the moving balance.L'équilibre en mouvement.Achieving stability by changing everything.The body shifting before the wind hits.Anticipating the rain, you raise the shield.Not homeostasis.This is the wisdom of the wave you ride before it breaks.[Bridge]But what a cost.This constant readiness.This beautiful, terrible foresight.Bruce McEwen gave it a name in ninety-three.The allostatic load.The wear and tear on the hull.The price for weathering storms that only existin the future's cloudy ink.My brave, tired vessel.[Outro]The wind never came today.The phone never rang.But you stand ready.The engine idling.The balance...held in motion.