**Verse I**
I memorized the shape of your silence
Like a scar I was meant to keep
Built a sanctuary from my body
Just to give you somewhere to sleep
I fed you truth through cracked lips
Let you drink until I was thin
Every vow you never honored
Still echoes under my skin
**Pre-Chorus**
I stayed where you abandoned me
Between forgiveness and decay
If this was grace
Why did it hurt to stay alive?
**Chorus**
I LAID MY NAME ON YOUR ALTAR
AND YOU LET IT BURN
I GAVE YOU EVERYTHING I WAS
AND NOTHING IN RETURN
IF THIS WAS LOVE
IT WAS A KNIFE
IF THIS WAS GOD
HE TOOK MY LIFE
I KNEELED UNTIL MY FAITH COLLAPSED
AND STILL THE ALTAR NEVER ANSWERED
**Verse II**
You touched me like a verdict
Like a sentence handed down
I learned to call your distance
Something holy, something sound
I swallowed pain like communion
Called survival proof of worth
If devotion is destruction
You made sure I went first
**Pre-Chorus**
Say you were distant
Say you were afraid
But you watched me hollow out
And never looked away
**Chorus**
I LAID MY NAME ON YOUR ALTAR
AND YOU LET IT BURN
I GAVE YOU EVERYTHING I WAS
AND NOTHING IN RETURN
IF THIS WAS LOVE
IT WAS A KNIFE
IF THIS WAS GOD
HE TOOK MY LIFE
I KNEELED UNTIL MY FAITH COLLAPSED
AND STILL THE ALTAR NEVER ANSWERED
**Bridge (low, ritualistic, rising)**
If you are sacred
I am the cost
If I was chosen
Why was I lost?
I bled myself into shape
To fit your design
I wasn’t asking for salvation
I was asking to survive
**Breakdown (slow, crushing)**
I GAVE
UNTIL I WAS EMPTY
I STAYED
UNTIL I WAS GONE
YOU CALLED IT FAITH
I CALLED IT LOSING EVERYTHING
AND STILL HOLDING ON
**Final Chorus (full, devastating)**
I LAID MY NAME ON YOUR ALTAR
AND WAITED FOR A SIGN
I GAVE YOU MY BODY
YOU TOOK YOUR TIME
IF THIS WAS LOVE
LET IT DIE
IF THIS WAS GOD
LET HIM DENY
I LEFT MY HEART IN THE DUST
WAITING FOR TRUST
BUT THE EARTH
NEVER ANSWERED
**Outro (quiet, scorched)**
I don’t curse you
I don’t pray
I just learned
That silence
Is not divine.
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HollowVotive
