**Verse I**
You taught me how to bleed in time
With the rhythm of your need
Every touch was sanctified
Every absence felt like sin
I held my breath between your words
Like mercy lived there if I waited
But silence only learns to hurt
When it knows it’s being worshipped
**Pre-Chorus**
I bent until I disappeared
Just to fit inside your hands
You called it love, I called it fear
Dressed up as a higher plan
**Chorus**
I was a vessel, not a voice
I was the echo of your name
I loved you like a god would want
You loved me like a chain
So let me crack, let me come undone
If rage is all I’ve got to prove I’m alive
I won’t kneel for you again
I won’t make peace with the knife
**Verse II**
You drank the calm out of my chest
Left the storm to teach me how
To scream without a sound
To rot politely, to bow
I kept the faith when you kept score
Every flaw was currency
I paid in skin, you asked for more
And called it vulnerability
**Pre-Chorus II**
I learned too late that heaven’s gate
Was just another locked room
You stood inside with the only key
And called my suffocation truth
**Chorus**
I was a vessel, not a voice
I was devotion set to bleed
I loved you like a god would want
You loved what you could take from me
So let me break, let me be done
If anger is the only thing that’s mine
I won’t kneel for you again
I won’t make peace with the knife
**Bridge (Low → Explosive)**
I still feel you in the dark
Like a curse I can’t outrun
I still reach for what you were
Then remember what you’ve done
You don’t get to haunt me
You don’t get to stay
If you wanted my forever
You shouldn’t have fed on my pain
*(beat drops)*
I was never weak
I was just alone
**Final Chorus**
I was a vessel, now I’m teeth
Now I bite back when it hurts
I loved you past the point of sense
You loved me past the point of worth
So let me rise, let me ruin
Every altar built from shame
I won’t kneel for you again
I won’t wear your fucking name
**Outro**
This isn’t forgiveness
This is release
I’m done being holy
For something that eats
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HollowVotive
