[Intro — distant, hollow, spoken]
You weren’t absent.
You were empty.
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[Verse I — low, suffocating growl]
Silence wasn’t distance
It was design
A hollow architecture
Built to erase mine
I learned starvation
From watching you withhold
Every unanswered moment
Turned marrow into cold
You didn’t disappear
You stayed inert
A vacuum with authority
Teaching damage as birth
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[Pre-Chorus — dissonant rise]
I was never unseen
You chose nothing
And called it love
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[Chorus — cavernous, mantra-like]
YOU
WERE
EMPTY
No malice
No depth
Just absence crowned as inheritance
YOU
WERE
EMPTY
And I rot
In thought
Trying to cauterize what you left
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[Verse II — faster, venomous]
Affection rationed
Like a failing resource
You passed down ruin
And named it “force”
I dismantled myself
To fit inside your lack
But even my collapse
Couldn’t pull you back
You weren’t cruel
You weren’t blind
You were incapable
Of being alive
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[Breakdown — absolute negation]
NOT
ABSENT
EMPTY
I offered you something human
You processed it into dust
Not hatred
Not intent
Incapacity.
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[Bridge — spoken over blastbeats]
Hope wasn’t strength
It was infection
And I excised it
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[Final Chorus — layered, blackened choir + guttural]
YOU
WERE
EMPTY
No ghosts
No closure
Only severance sharpened into clarity
YOU
WERE
EMPTY
I rot in thought
Until even that dissolves
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[Outro — slow, freezing finality]
This isn’t forgiveness.
This is removal.
You do not exist in me.