“Hollow Earth”

(Drop tuning. Slow clean intro exploding into crushing riffs.)

I loved you despite my insecurities…

Your light cut through my darkest nights…

I would’ve done anything…

Just to stay alive…

With you by my side…

(distorted feedback rises)

Through shattered mirrors and bloodshot eyes

We buried ourselves just to survive

Every promise carved into stone

Now I wake to this hell alone

You chased the fire beyond the pain

Built your empire from our remains

While I stood still inside the flood

Drowning slowly in the mud

Throughout it all…

We left ourselves behind…

Now you’re out there all alone…

Living the dream you swore was mine…

BROKEN PROMISES! EMPTY LIVES!

Swimming through this hollow earth consuming all their pain!

NO! NO! NO! NOOOOO!

GIVE ME BACK MY LIFE!

Give me back your love!

Give me back your light!

I’M BREAKING!

OOOOOH YEAH — I’M BREAKING INSIDE!

Every night! In every life!

I’m slowly losing my mind!

My sense of self is almost gone

A shadow stretched where I belong

Slipping away through fractured time

Into the void you left behind

These cracks look just like eternity

A thousand ghosts beneath my feet

Your image fading from my veins

Like dying echoes in the rain

NOW ALL THAT’S LEFT!

OF WHAT WE USED TO BE!

IS A DISTANT MEMORY!

A LONG LOST!

FORGOTTEN DREAM!

(massive chugs)

I CAN FEEL IT ROTTING!

UNDERNEATH MY SKIN!

THE LOVE WE BUILT IS A GRAVEYARD!

AND I’M CRAWLING BACK IN!

(melodic lead over tremolo-picked rhythm transitioning into chaos)

BROKEN PROMISES! EMPTY LIVES!

Swimming through this hollow earth consuming all their pain!

NO! NO! NO! NOOOOO!

GIVE ME BACK MY LIFE!

Give me back your love!

Give me back your light!

I’M BREAKING!

OOOOOH YEAH — I’M BREAKING INSIDE!

Every night! In every life!

I’m slowly losing my mind!

Your image has faded from within my mind…

Now all that’s left…

Of what we used to be…

Is a distant memory…

Of a long lost…

Forgotten…

Dream…