Hollow Without You

[Verse 1]
Woke up to drywall dust
Fist-shaped hole where your face used to be
Your cup still stains the counter
I keep walking past it like it’s gonna speak
I wear your old black hoodie
Neck stretched out
Smells like last year’s rain
Every room sounds like an engine
Idling
Grinding
But going nowhere
[Chorus]
I feel hollow without you
Like a house with the walls ripped through
Yeah
We burned this to the ground
But the ashes still taste like you
I’m a ghost in my own skin
Pacing halls I can’t escape in
We were poison
We were truth
I am useless
I am useless without you
[Verse 2]
You said
“We only hurt each other”
Then you dropped the phone like a loaded gun
I still hear that final silence
Echo louder than anything I’ve done
Friends say
“You dodged a bullet”
But my chest disagrees every single night
I keep scrolling through the wreckage
Hunting for a different ending in the light
[Chorus]
I feel hollow without you
Like a house with the walls ripped through
Yeah
We burned this to the ground
But the ashes still taste like you
I’m a ghost in my own skin
Pacing halls I can’t escape in
We were poison
We were truth
I am useless
I am useless without you
[Bridge]
[Music drops to bass
Drums
Distant guitar swells]
You were the worst thing
You were the best thing
You were the only thing
That ever felt like anything
[Harsh screams]
I CAN’T BREATHE
I CAN’T BLEED
I CAN’T FEEL A SINGLE THING
[Chorus]
I feel hollow without you
Like a house with the walls ripped through
Yeah
We tore each other open
But I still bleed your name straight through
I’m a ghost in my own skin
Pacing halls I can’t escape in
We were poison
We were truth
I am useless
I am useless without you
[Outro]
(Without you)
I’m a locked-up throat
(Without you)
Just an echo caught in smoke
(Without you)
Every word turns into rust
I am nothing
I am nothing
But the space you left in us

rock, Post-hardcore / melodic metalcore: palm-muted triplet chugs and halftime toms in the verses, exploding into wide open crash-heavy choruses. Male vocals shifting between raw mid-range screams and strained melodic hooks; octave lead lines doubling key phrases. Bridge drops to bass-and-vocal tension before a climactic scream-and-gang-vocal outro. Gritty, roomy drum sound; guitars tuned low and snarling., hard rock, metal