**Verse 1 (clean, distant):**
Streetlights flicker through the fog,
Like dying signals from a fading god.
Everyone's connected, nobody's known,
A million voices and I'm still alone.
I watch affection get traded away,
For temporary comfort and borrowed names.
Everybody leaves before the roots can grow,
Everybody runs when the feeling gets close.
**Pre-Chorus (whispered):**
Maybe love existed once.
Maybe we buried it ourselves.
**Chorus (clean vocals with rising distortion):**
I'm dying to love in a world that feeds on ghosts,
Where hearts are disposable and nothing matters most.
I reach through the dark, but the dark reaches back,
Leaving fingerprints across the cracks.
And every time I let somebody in,
I lose another piece beneath my skin.
I wanted warmth.
I found decay.
Now I watch my hope dissolve away.
**Verse 2 (clean, melancholic):**
There's a graveyard underneath my chest,
Filled with names I couldn't forget.
Promises rot like flowers in the rain,
Beautiful for a moment, then swallowed by pain.
I don't blame them anymore.
Maybe nobody knows what they're searching for.
We're all just trying to outrun the void,
Breaking each other to avoid being destroyed.
**Bridge (heavy, screamed):**
I HELD ON UNTIL MY HANDS BLED.
I PRAYED FOR LIFE INSIDE THE DEAD.
I BUILT A HOME INSIDE A FLAME.
AND ACTED SHOCKED WHEN IT COULDN'T STAY.
**Breakdown (slow, crushing):**
Love is a knife.
Love is a disease.
Love is a ghost
Living under my teeth.
I still want it.
That's the worst part.
**Outro (ambient, fading clean vocals):**
The skyline disappears into black.
No guiding light. No way back.
If love still exists, it forgot my name.
And maybe I'd do the same.
So I'll sleep beside the emptiness,
And let the silence finish what loneliness started.
HollowVotive
