Faint With Faith

[Verse 1]
I tore the pages
Out of that book I used to hold
Now every margin
Still has my questions in the folds
I used your name like
Salt on an open wound
Kept saying “save me”
To a ceiling in this room
[Chorus]
I am faint with faith
Too hurt to trust
Too scared to hate
If you’re there
Then say my name
I am skin and shame
Hands in the air
But nothing breaks
Just my voice
My chest
My veins
[Verse 2]
I wore your symbols
Like armor made of glass
All of these Sundays
Feel like a lifetime in the past
My friends kept singing
I just mouthed the words
Tried to stay standing
While the floor learned how to burn
[Chorus]
I am faint with faith
Too hurt to trust
Too scared to hate
If you’re there
Then say my name
I am skin and shame
Hands in the air
But nothing breaks
Just my voice
My chest
My veins
[Bridge]
Are you the silence
Or are you the scream? (answer me)
Am I abandoned
Or waking from a dream? (answer me)
I’m on the edge of
Everything we prayed
Rip out this heartbeat
Or teach it how to stay (teach it how to stay)
[Breakdown]
So I shout to the dark
’til my throat gives out
If you won’t speak
I will still scream loud
Are you ghost
Are you love
Are you gone for good?
If you’re never coming back
Then why do you still
[Chorus]
I am faint with faith
Too hurt to trust
Too scared to hate
If you’re there
Then say my name
I am skin and shame
Hands in the air
But nothing breaks
Just my voice
My chest
My veins
[Outro]
Hold me by the doubt
If you won’t by the hand
I’m breaking where I stand
I still reach
I still reach
To whatever never answers me

Emotional post-hardcore, male vocals: tense palm-muted guitars under fragile verses, then explosive full-band eruptions with screamed call-and-response. Choruses hit with wide, octave-driven chords and gang shouts, bass grinding under sharp, roomy drums. Bridge collapses into half-time breakdown, dissonant leads and feedback swells, then pulls back to a raw, near-a cappella final line., post-hardcore, faint, emo, emotional