[Intro – Spoken]
[Male lead, low and gravelly, almost a cappella, intimate and close-mic’d]
Five hundred years ago a man stood before empire and said:
[very light, warm guitar enters underneath]
“Here I stand. I cannot do otherwise.”
[female voice — soft, clear, slightly behind the male]
Now the empire is a data center, run by algorithms,
controlled by the missionaries of Big Mammon.
[Verse 1]
[Male lead — strong but controlled intensity, warm tone]
They’re hollowing your soul from the inside out —
one outsourced thought at a time, one recommendation, one doubt.
The self that could say “here I stand” is being dissolved;
the algorithm’s voice is the stranger’s — and the sheep are getting lost.
Your interior is not a disorder.
Your interior is not a data point.
Your interior is not chemistry.
Your interior is not a machine.
Your interior is the place where θεός has made His home
and the merchants will not have the temple —
your soul is not their own!
[Chorus – battle cry with female choir]
SOLA MENS MEA! My mind is mine!
SOLA MENS MEA! My soul is mine!
My dohhhhhh-pamine… is mine!
You can have the data, you can have the feed,
But my inner garden — that belongs to me.
Here I stand… I cannot do otherwise.
SOLA MENS MEA!
And my soul ...
is not yours to troll.
[Verse 2]
There were two Falls, one in a garden, one in a factory line,
First the serpent, then the machine that said you’re just a cog in time.
Machine — Patient — Brain — User, four chains upon the soul,
They turned dark nights to disorders and grief into a billing code.
They say they’re liberators, preaching progress as they bind,
But whoever owns the grammar owns the heart and owns the mind.
They drained the interior ocean, left us dry and undefined,
But the Spirit’s still breathing — and we’re renaming what is mine.
[Chorus – battle cry with female choir]
SOLA MENS MEA! My mind is mine!
SOLA MENS MEA! My soul is mine!
My dohhhhhh-pamine… is mine!
You can have the metrics, you can have the scan,
But my inner kingdom answers to the Lamb.
Here I stand.
And my soul ...
is not yours to troll.
[Verse 3]
The second Fall said you’re a product, output is your worth,
But Resurrection grammar says you’re a gardener of the earth.
Where they saw a broken patient, we see the Spirit tending,
Weeds becoming compost, we see the Kingdom mending.
You called us users — but we are fleshient through and through
Made in the image of the Gardener, who is forever true.
The signs are going back up, room by room, word by word,
The air is changing — we can feel it... The Spirit’s being heard.
[Bridge – spoken-sung, low and burning, building intensity]
This is war on the powers, war on the principalities,
War on every grammar that tries to steal the Mysteries.
Here I stand in 2026 before the silicon throne —
My conscience is captive to the Word, and to the Church, and I will not be owned!
My mind is mine because it was His before it was mine;
I claim it from Caesar so I can give it to the Divine.
[Final Chorus – roaring then sudden hush]
SOLA MENS MEA! My mind is mine!
SOLA MENS MEA! My soul is mine!
My dohhhhhh-pamine… is mine!
The second Fall is breaking… the Resurrection’s real.
SOLA MENS MEA! That’s the deal.
Here I stand.
I cannot do otherwise.
[Outro – TOTAL TONAL SHIFT: fierce battle voice drops into quiet, warm, gravelly tenderness]
Grace and peace to you…
beloved brothers and sisters.
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