### **Verse 1 — *Low, restrained clean***
I learned your name in the silence
Where the ceiling breathes with me
Every prayer tastes like rust now
Every promise incomplete
I kept your ghost in my bloodstream
Let it tell me what to be
I knelt where the light was dying
And called that faith, called that peace
---
### **Pre-Chorus — *Lift, breathy falsetto creeps in***
*(Falsetto)*
If love is a ritual
I bled out the proof
*(Drop to chest)*
If you were a god
I was made to lose
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### **Chorus — *Falsetto lead, wide and aching***
*(Falsetto)*
So **consecrate the wound**
I gave you everything that moves
I swallowed my truth
Just to feel close to you
*(Layer chest voice underneath last line)*
I would hollow my chest
Just to make you stay
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### **Post-Chorus — *Instrumental swell, no drums***
*(Falsetto ad-libs, distant)*
“Stay… stay… don’t go…”
---
### **Verse 2 — *Clean, darker, more present***
I traced your shape in the static
In the space where my hope should sleep
Every touch was a language
I was never meant to speak
I learned how to disappear
In the warmth of your doubt
You said I was holy
But you never knelt down
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### **Pre-Chorus 2 — *Falsetto higher, strained***
*(Falsetto)*
If this is salvation
Why does it burn?
*(Crack in voice)*
If this is love
Why does it hurt to learn?
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### **Chorus 2 — *Full band, falsetto stacked***
*(Falsetto lead)*
So **consecrate the wound**
I gave you everything that moves
I swallowed my truth
Just to feel close to you
*(Sudden cutoff)*
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## **BREAKDOWN — *Drop tuned, slow, violent***
**(Drums half-time. Guitars chug. Bass distorted.)**
*(Spoken → scream progression)*
I
was
the altar
You
were
the knife
*(Scream)*
I CALLED IT DESTINY
YOU CALLED IT TIME
*(Chugs hit)*
I STAYED FAITHFUL
YOU STAYED FREE
*(Long scream over open chord)*
I DROWNED IN THE SPACE
BETWEEN YOU AND ME
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### **Break — *Silence → piano + falsetto***
*(Falsetto, fragile)*
Say you never meant it
Say I misread the signs
Don’t call it mercy
When you leave me behind
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### **Final Chorus — *Falsetto → full chest → scream harmony***
*(Falsetto)*
So **consecrate the wound**
Let it sing like I used to do
*(Chest voice enters)*
I gave you my breath
I gave you my youth
*(Scream harmony underneath last line)*
If love is a god
Then I was untrue
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### **Outro — *Falsetto alone, distant reverb***
*(Falsetto)*
Because I worshipped you
Still do
In the dark
In the quiet
In the ruin of you
HollowVotive
