### **Verse 1**
I sleep with the lights on
Like it keeps the ghosts away
Every shadow feels like you
Every breath tastes like decay
I’ve been stitching up the silence
With a needle made of doubt
If I say your name out loud
Will it burn me inside out?
### **Pre-Chorus**
I swear I tried to be stronger
But strength feels borrowed now
I’m holding onto fragments
Of a life I can’t live down
### **Chorus**
I’m standing in the burial light
Watching everything I love decay
If this is living, I don’t feel alive
I just survive another day
I carved your name into my ribs
Just to prove this pain was real
If hope is something I can’t fix
Then let me break, don’t let me heal
### **Verse 2**
You said time would numb the edges
But it sharpens every lie
I still hear you in the distance
Like a scream I can’t outride
I gave you all my oxygen
Now I’m choking on the air
If I’m honest, I don’t miss you
I miss who I was back there
### **Pre-Chorus**
I keep rehearsing goodbyes
Like they’ll finally make sense
But every word feels hollow
When you’re gone without defense
### **Chorus**
I’m standing in the burial light
Watching everything I love decay
If this is living, I don’t feel alive
I just survive another day
I carved your name into my ribs
Just to prove this pain was real
If hope is something I can’t fix
Then let me break, don’t let me heal
**Bridge** *(drop + build)*
Tell me—
Was I ever enough?
Or just convenient love?
I bent until I shattered
Called it loyalty
Now I’m buried in the aftermath
Of who you needed me to be
*(instrumental swell / screams here)*
### **Final Chorus** *(bigger, desperate)*
I’m standing in the burial light
With a heart that won’t stay quiet
If this is faith, then I’ve lost sight
I pray to ghosts in the silence
I carved your name into my ribs
Now it bleeds with every breath
If this is how I learn to live
Then I choose the kiss of death
**Outro**
Turn the lights off
Let me disappear
I’ve been dead here
For years
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HollowVotive
