**Verse 1 (clean baritone / low, suffocating)**
The room collapsed when you stopped breathing
Nothing dramatic, just wrong
Like the world forgot a rule
And kept moving along
Your name still triggers a reflex
Like I’m supposed to turn around
But there’s no footsteps following
Just a quieter sound
*(distant ad-libs)*
— *too late*
— *not ready*
**Pre-Chorus (tight, restrained pain)**
They say you’re gone
Like it’s a location
As if distance explains
Devastation
**Chorus (heavy, slow, crushing)**
I don’t miss you
I miss who I was before
Before the silence learned my shape
And settled into my core
If grief is love with nowhere to go
Then I’m overflowing
With everything
You didn’t take when you left
**Verse 2 (syncopated, dragging groove)**
I replay the last conversation
Like it’s hiding a door
Every word feels heavier
Than it did before
I keep inventory of moments
I didn’t know were final
I would’ve stayed longer
If I knew they were vital
*(ad-libs)*
— *stay*
— *stay*
**Pre-Chorus 2 (voice tightening)**
I don’t need closure
I need you back
But reality doesn’t negotiate
With fact
**Chorus (heavier slam, layered vocals)**
I don’t miss you
I miss the future we lost
The years that never happened
And the weight they still cost
If love survives as damage
Then I’m proof it’s true
I’m still carrying
What didn’t come with you
**Bridge (ambient pads / delayed guitar, hollow)**
They say you live on in memory
But memory feels thin
Like a photograph that can’t explain
Where you’ve been
*(drop — silence breath)*
**Breakdown (harsh, desperate screams)**
YOU DIDN’T DIE
YOU TOOK EVERYTHING
AND LEFT ME HERE
TO FEEL IT HAPPEN
EVERY DAY
IS THE SAME LOSS
JUST REPACKAGED
AND RELIVED
**Final Chorus (clean lead breaking + scream layer)**
I don’t miss you
I miss breathing without pain
I miss waking up
Without retracing your name
If heaven exists
I hope it knows what it stole
Because I’m still down here
Paying the toll
**Outro (slow, collapsing reverb)**
Some people don’t leave emptiness
They leave mass
And I bend around it
Until I break
HollowVotive
