Hollow Veins

Verse 1

Crawling through the dust I made,

Same old path, different shade.

Every step I take just pulls me down again.

Shadows whisper through my bones,

Telling me I’m not alone—

But the voices sound like every place I’ve been.

Pre-Chorus

And I feel it, sinking slow—

The weight I never show.

Chorus

Hollow veins, filled with all my yesterdays,

Can’t escape the price I’ve had to pay.

If the truth is just a lie in better clothes,

Then I’ll follow where the broken river flows.

Verse 2

Cold hands scrape against my mind,

Digging up the things I hide.

Every wound I stitch keeps tearing at the seams.

Empty bottles, crooked grin,

Trying not to fall back in—

But the dark still knows exactly what I mean.

Pre-Chorus

Yeah, I taste it, in my throat—

The fear I never wrote.

Chorus

Hollow veins, filled with all my yesterdays,

Can’t escape the price I’ve had to pay.

If the truth is just a lie in better clothes,

Then I’ll follow where the broken river flows.

Bridge (Layne-style harmony)

Take me down—

To the ground—

Where the echo of my sins won’t make a sound.

I’m halfway gone—

But holding on—

To the part of me that still knows right from wrong.

Final Chorus

Hollow veins, filled with all my yesterdays,

Still I rise though everything decays.

If the truth is just a lie in better clothes,

Then I’ll walk out where the burning sunrise glows.