The Veined Palm

[Intro] [Verse 1] In the humid shed of two-thousand-five where Arkansas minerals hissed My calloused fingertips bled from edges refusing to align Ozone laced the air as the sky's first rumble answered my experiments Prism lattices hummed alive in blue-orange pulses, just like this Below the coiling maw the monoliths rise in lattice ambition Their facets catching the first threads of an approaching reckoning [Pre-Chorus] The veins ignite with remembered sting of first formation's cut It reaches, it remembers every fragile pulse we ever cut [Chorus] Reach down, veined palm, through the coiling ether-maw (Reach down!) Curl around the prism-webbed monoliths we raised (Curl around!) Feel the hum of their defiant glowing core (Feel the hum!) We pulsed from your first breath, now claim us or reforge us whole~ (Reforge us!) [Instrumental Break] [Verse 2] The floating facets orbit like thoughts I couldn't contain that night Each one a memory of the solution's sharp mineral kiss on skin Lightning arcs from your fingertips trace the same blue fire I chased The city trembles, its spires bending toward the inevitable embrace [Bridge] And in that moment the touch is not destruction but the lab's old promise The sting that made the crystals sing, the pulse that refused to die We reform in your image, facets realigning to a higher design The horizon bleeds copper as new lattices begin to climb [Final Chorus] Reach down, veined palm, through the coiling ether-maw (Reach down, reach deeper!) Curl around the prism-webbed monoliths we raised (Curl tighter!) Feel the hum of their defiant glowing core (Feel it rise!) We pulsed from your first breath, now claim us or reforge us whole~ (Reforge the world!) [Outro] [End]