Hollow As A Prayer

**Verse I (Clean / Low, fragile)**
I learned your shape in the dark of my lungs
Where your name still hurts when I breathe it in
You taught me love with a loaded mouth
Said “stay right here,” then you counted me out

I wore your silence like second skin
Every unanswered word caved in
I kept the faith, I kept the bruise
I kept the parts of me you used

**Pre-Chorus (Clean → Grit)**
I held my breath for you to stay
You only lingered to watch me decay

**Chorus (Clean Lead + Backing Screams)**
I’m hollow as a prayer you never meant
(***NEVER MEANT***)
Empty words in a cathedral of regret
(***REGRET***)

I screamed your name into the void
(***SCREAMED IT BACK***)
It screamed me back with all your neglect

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**Verse II (Clean, colder / restrained anger)**
You said devotion was beautiful
As long as it wasn’t yours to give
You fed on my forgiveness
Like it owed you how to live

I drowned in everything unsaid
While you stayed dry inside my head
You made a home inside my grief
Then called it comfort, called it peace

**Pre-Chorus II (Half-scream)**
You called me sacred when I bled
But never when I needed rest

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**Chorus II (Clean → Full Scream Final Lines)**
I’m hollow as a prayer you never meant
(***I WAS EMPTY FOR YOU***)
A broken hymn between your teeth
(***YOU CHEWED ME UP***)

I loved you raw, I loved you wrong
(***LOVED YOU TOO FUCKING LONG***)
If this is grace—
***THEN BURN IT OUT OF ME***

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### **Breakdown / Bridge (FULL SCREAMS)**

***I GAVE YOU EVERYTHING***
***YOU GAVE ME NOTHING BACK***

***I BLED SO YOU COULD FEEL ALIVE***
***YOU CALLED IT LOVE — I CALL IT THE FUCKING KNIFE***

***YOU DON’T GET MY PAIN***
***YOU DON’T GET MY SLEEP***
***YOU DON’T GET TO HAUNT ME***
***JUST BECAUSE I WAS WEAK***

*(pause — instruments drop)*

**Whisper (Clean, isolated)**
I still miss you

***AND I FUCKING HATE THAT***


**Final Chorus (Clean Lead + Layered Screams)**
I’m hollow as a prayer—no god responds
(***NO ONE ANSWERS ME***)
Just silence dressed in light
(***JUST LIES IN WHITE***)

I carved my truth into my bones
(***CARVED IT DEEP***)
So I don’t disappear tonight
(***I’M STILL HERE***)

I loved you raw, I loved you wrong
(***BUT I SURVIVED YOU***)
If this is worship, hear me now—
***I CHOOSE MYSELF***

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**Outro (Screams, fading into ambience)**
***NO MORE ALTARS***
***NO MORE CHAINS***
***I AM NOT YOUR FUCKING MIRACLE***

*(final line — spoken)*
I’m the one who walked away.

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Alt Metal
Prog Metal
R&B, Ambient, and Djent
Clean vocals (baritone - tenor)
Distorted, gritty cleans
Harsh male vocals