**Verse 1 (clean, fragile):**
I used to think the world was built for two,
A place where broken people made it through.
Now every road just leads to another goodbye,
Another promise dressed up in a lie.
You taught me how to hope with open hands,
Then left me holding ashes and demands.
Now every smile feels sharpened at the edge,
Another wound waiting beneath the flesh.
**Pre-Chorus (whispered):**
I gave everything.
You gave me reasons not to.
**Chorus (clean vocals breaking into screams):**
I'M SO FUCKING TIRED OF LOVING IN A WORLD LIKE THIS.
WHERE HEARTS GET USED UP AND THROWN INTO THE ABYSS.
I GAVE YOU MY SOUL, YOU GAVE ME EMPTY SPACE.
NOW EVERY MEMORY FEELS LIKE A KNIFE ACROSS MY FACE.
And I hate that I still miss you.
I hate that I still care.
I hate that every part of me
Still hopes you'll reappear.
**Verse 2 (clean, trembling with resentment):**
I wanted something simple, something true,
A life I could've built around you.
But forever only lasted until it became hard,
And you walked away carrying my heart.
Now every room feels violent and cold,
Full of conversations that will never grow old.
Your ghost sits where your body used to be,
And laughs at what's become of me.
**Bridge (heavy section):**
I DON'T WANT YOUR APOLOGY.
I DON'T WANT YOUR SYMPATHY.
I WANT THE YEARS BACK.
I WANT THE SLEEP BACK.
I WANT THE PERSON I WAS
BEFORE YOU TOOK THAT.
**Breakdown (slow, crushing):**
You said love was enough.
You lied.
Or maybe you believed it too.
Maybe that's what hurts the most.
**Final Chorus (desperate screams layered with cleans):**
I'M STILL DYING TO LOVE IN THIS LOVELESS PLACE.
STILL LOOKING FOR LIGHT IN THE SAME DARK SPACE.
EVERY TIME I STAND, SOMETHING TAKES MY FEET.
EVERY TIME I HEAL, SOMETHING OPENS THE SEAM.
And I know I should let go.
I know I should move on.
But part of me is buried
Where you disappeared from.
**Outro (ambient, fading):**
The worst thing isn't that you left.
It's that you made me believe.
For a little while...
That somebody could stay.
HollowVotive
