We found the cause Excellent Now who’s going to ask What the body did for the last five years? [Verse 1] A trigger struck the systems shifted Every circuit learned its part The HPA took the night shift While the gut revised the chart Metabolism changed the budget Autonomics changed the pace What began as compensation Slowly settled into place Specialists drew tidy borders Every organ got a file Then the vagus crossed the boundaries With a completely straight-faced smile [Pre-Chorus] A workaround is brilliant Till it forgets it can let go A detour paved by repetition May become the only road [Chorus] Cause is not cure Find the spark and smoke may stay What saved the system yesterday May cost the system every day Don’t gag the symptom at the door Ask how long and what it cost What might this body be compensating for? Cause is not cure The way toward health may not reverse the route Sometimes coming home Means finding a different way out [Verse 2] A normal serum number Is one window not the wall What circulates this morning May not answer every call A snapshot isn’t history One organ isn’t the whole The body never signed the paperwork That split it into roles Patterns live between the measures And in changes over time Fifteen minutes loves a checkbox Living systems decline [Pre-Chorus] Symptom relief can offer mercy Medicine can save the day But when the larger network has adapted One lever may not clear the maze [Chorus] Cause is not cure Remove the thorn yet guarding may remain A system trained by repetition Doesn’t simply unlearn pain Don’t blame the signal at the door Ask what function came before What might this body be compensating for? Cause is not cure The way toward health may not reverse the route Sometimes coming home Means finding a different way out [Verse 3 – DBR+AT] D B R asks before the story Where did orienting tense? Before the cortex wrote the minutes What first startled into sense? Superior colliculus turns attention Locus coeruleus sounds surprise P A G gathers pain and defense Before an explanation can arise A T meets the learned armoring Jaw, shoulders sternum and held command Not forcing calm or adding something new But giving choice a place to land [Pre-Chorus] When old shock is one strand in the knot We work that strand We don’t claim the lot [Bridge – Spoken/Rhythmic] Don’t call every fever memory Don’t make microbes metaphors Therapy is not an antibiotic Insight is not a laboratory report Immune drivers need medicine Damaged tissues need their care But when defensive learning joins the burden It deserves attention there Not broken Not imaginary Not one organ behaving badly Maybe a clever compensation Outliving its assignment Maybe several causes Several costs Several doors Ask better questions [Final Chorus] Recalibration not just suppression Integration not one correction Slow enough to read the clues Let each response inform what comes next to choose Cause is not cure And symptoms are not character flaws Sometimes they are old intelligence Still faithfully enforcing ancient laws The way toward health may not reverse the route Sometimes coming home Means finding a different way out [Outro] The detour became the road So we will not shame the road We’ll learn why it was built What weight it had to hold Then patiently and system-wide With medicine truth and time We’ll help the body find A safer road toward home
