**Verse 1 (clean baritone / fragile, spacious)**
The house still breathes like you’re inside
Every door remembers your side
I reach for habits with no use
Still setting places meant for you
Your jacket hangs where time stood still
Dust learns the shape of your will
I don’t cry—I just forget
Then remember all over again
*(soft, echoing ad-libs)*
— *still here*
— *still gone*
**Pre-Chorus (low, restrained ache)**
They say it fades if I let it
Like loss is something to outgrow
But grief just changes posture
It never really goes
**Chorus (wide, heavy, mournful)**
I carry the weight of what’s missing
Like gravity learned my name
Every breath feels borrowed
Since the day you didn’t stay
If love is measured in absence
Then I’m rich in pain
I don’t scream your name
I just feel it
**Verse 2 (groove-driven, subdued)**
Your voicemail’s a time capsule
I’m afraid to open twice
Your laugh still lives in the static
Between the wrong and right
I keep moving out of habit
Like motion means I’m okay
But my shadow walks behind me
In the shape you left that day
*(ad-libs)*
— *too quiet*
— *too soon*
**Pre-Chorus 2 (voice breaking, controlled)**
I don’t know who I am without you
I just know who I was before
Every future I imagined
Doesn’t live here anymore
**Chorus (heavier, layered harmonies)**
I carry the weight of what’s missing
Like gravity learned my name
Every breath feels borrowed
Since the day you didn’t stay
If love is measured in absence
Then I’m rich in pain
I don’t scream your name
I just feel it
**Bridge (ambient pads / delayed guitar)**
They tell me time will heal this
Like time was ever kind
Time just teaches me new ways
To leave you behind
*(drop — silence beat)*
**Breakdown (controlled, aching screams)**
I DIDN’T LOSE YOU
YOU LEFT A HOLE
THAT EVERY DAY
KEEPS TAKING MORE
I DON’T NEED ANSWERS
I NEED A SIGN
THAT YOU STILL EXIST
SOMEWHERE IN TIME
**Final Chorus (clean lead + harsh underlayer)**
I carry the weight of what’s missing
It never lets me stand straight
I learned how to function
But I never escaped
If heaven is real
I hope you’re safe
And if it’s not
Then I’ll carry you anyway
**Outro (soft, cinematic reverb)**
Some losses don’t end
They just get quieter
And I learn how to breathe
Around them
HollowVotive
