Hollow Boy, Heavy World

I was just a kid with hand‑me‑down fears,

Trying to look older than my broken years.

Everybody said, “Son, toughen up or you’ll drown,”

But no one ever asked why I never made a sound.

I walked around with pockets full of things I couldn’t name,

Little bits of anger, little bits of shame.

I learned early how to fake a smile and hide the hurt,

’Cause hollow boys don’t cry — they just sink into the dirt.

I was a hollow boy in a heavy world,

Carrying storms I never asked for.

Trying to stand tall with a spine made of fear,

Trying to find God in a place He wasn’t near.

Every step I took felt like dragging chains through earth,

Yeah, I was a hollow boy…

In a world that weighed more than my worth.

I watched other kids run wild without a care,

While I was learning how to breathe inside a nightmare.

Some nights I’d pray to disappear, some nights I’d pray to stay,

But mostly I just prayed the pain would go away.

I kept secrets like they paid me just to keep my mouth shut,

Learned to swallow every feeling till my insides turned to rust.

And when the world got louder, I just folded in again,

A quiet little ghost pretending he was made of skin.

I was a hollow boy in a heavy world,

Carrying storms I never asked for.

Trying to stand tall with a spine made of fear,

Trying to find God in a place He wasn’t near.

Every step I took felt like dragging chains through earth,

Yeah, I was a hollow boy…

In a world that weighed more than my worth.

But hollow don’t mean empty —

It just means no one stayed.

It means you learned to build a home

Out of the pieces life betrayed.

And maybe all that weight I carried

Wasn’t meant to break my back…

Maybe it was meant to teach me

How to fight my demons back.

I was a hollow boy in a heavy world,

But I ain’t that same lost soul no more.

I found a little light in the wreckage of my past,

Found a little strength in the things that didn’t last.

And now I’m standing here, still bruised but unbroken on this earth…

’Cause I ain’t a hollow boy…

Just a man who learned his worth.

Yeah, the world was heavy…

But I got heavier.