Hollow Echo

Verse 1]

I drive the same back roads till the gas light blinks

Radio static louder than the thoughts I think

Pass the diner where we used to sit and talk

Now the booth’s just empty, and the coffee’s cold as chalk

Tried to fill the silence with a song or two

But every note lands wrong, every line rings through

Hollow echo, hollow echo

Bouncing off the walls where the feeling used to go

No hurt to hold, no light to chase

Just a voice that calls and calls my name in empty space

Hollow echo, hollow echo

Fading slower than the rest of me can go

Everything’s quiet… everything’s gone

Hollow echo… keeps rolling on

Wake up staring at the ceiling fan’s slow spin

Counting cracks like they might tell me where I’ve been

Friends still wave, say “you’ll come around someday”

I nod and smile, but inside it’s already decayed

The mirror shows a stranger wearing my old skin

I don’t recognize the man looking back again

Hollow echo, hollow echo

Bouncing off the walls where the feeling used to go

No hurt to hold, no light to chase

Just a voice that calls and calls my name in empty space

Hollow echo, hollow echo

Fading slower than the rest of me can go

Everything’s quiet… everything’s gone

Hollow echo… keeps rolling on

I used to beg for rain just to feel the sting

Now the storm could hit and I wouldn’t feel a thing

This quiet’s louder than any scream I’ve known

A grave I walk around in, but I’m never alone

Hollow echo… hollow echo…

(…echo…)

No spark… no fight… no way to let go…

(…echo…)

Everything’s quiet… everything’s gone…

Hollow echo…

hollow… echo…

Still driving… still breathing…

Still nothing… at all…

This one’s built to sit in your chest like damp Oklahoma fog—catchy hook that repeats until it hurts, words that remind you the echo never answers back. If you want it slower, meaner, or dialed in on a specific piece of that 5 a.m. hollow, just say. I’ll keep digging.