**Verse I**
I learned your silence like scripture
Memorized the way it cut
I wore your absence like a halo
Called it grace, called it love
I bled belief into the floor
Swore you’d come back for more
But heaven never answered me
Just watched me beg on broken knees
**Pre-Chorus**
I hollowed out my chest
To make you room to stay
You took the best of me
And turned your face away
**Chorus**
I gave you a god
And you gave me a grave
I built you a kingdom
You never would save
I prayed through the rot
I slept in the pain
If this is devotion
Then I am ashamed
**Verse II**
Your voice still lives inside my throat
Every word I never spoke
I stitched your name into my skin
Just to feel you breathe again
I was a vessel, I was weak
I let you make a home of me
Now I’m just ruins dressed in bone
Tryin’ to survive what you left alone
**Pre-Chorus**
I called it destiny
You called it a phase
I drowned in forever
You walked away
**Chorus**
I gave you a god
And you gave me the fall
I answered every prayer
You never called
I stayed through the dark
I stayed through the blame
If love is a sickness
I earned every ache
**Bridge (Slow, Atmospheric)**
Strip me of my faith
I don’t need it now
Every promise sounds like noise
When you’re not around
I would’ve died for you
You know it’s true
But you couldn’t live with me
And now I’m buried too
**Breakdown (HEAVY / SCREAMED OR GUTTURAL)**
I GAVE YOU EVERYTHING
I HAD AND MORE
I CUT MYSELF OPEN
AT YOUR ALTAR DOOR
I LET YOU IN
I LET YOU STAY
YOU TOOK MY NAME
AND THREW IT AWAY
I’M ON MY KNEES
I’M FUCKING EMPTY
NO GOD ABOVE ME
NO YOU TO TEMPT ME
TELL ME—
WHO AM I
WHEN WORSHIP DIES?
**Final Chorus (Half-Time, Crushing)**
I gave you a god
I gave you my breath
I loved you until
There was nothing left
Now I rot in the quiet
Of all that we made
If this is what love is
Then let me decay
**Outro (Bare / Broken)**
No heaven
No hell
Just me
And the shape you left
I gave you a god…
And I don’t believe in anything now.
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