Hollow As A Prayer

**Verse I (Clean / Low, fragile)**

I learned your shape in the dark of my lungs

Where your name still hurts when I breathe it in

You taught me love with a loaded mouth

Said “stay right here,” then you counted me out

I wore your silence like second skin

Every unanswered word caved in

I kept the faith, I kept the bruise

I kept the parts of me you used

**Pre-Chorus (Clean → Grit)**

I held my breath for you to stay

You only lingered to watch me decay

**Chorus (Clean Lead + Backing Screams)**

I’m hollow as a prayer you never meant

(***NEVER MEANT***)

Empty words in a cathedral of regret

(***REGRET***)

I screamed your name into the void

(***SCREAMED IT BACK***)

It screamed me back with all your neglect

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**Verse II (Clean, colder / restrained anger)**

You said devotion was beautiful

As long as it wasn’t yours to give

You fed on my forgiveness

Like it owed you how to live

I drowned in everything unsaid

While you stayed dry inside my head

You made a home inside my grief

Then called it comfort, called it peace

**Pre-Chorus II (Half-scream)**

You called me sacred when I bled

But never when I needed rest

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**Chorus II (Clean → Full Scream Final Lines)**

I’m hollow as a prayer you never meant

(***I WAS EMPTY FOR YOU***)

A broken hymn between your teeth

(***YOU CHEWED ME UP***)

I loved you raw, I loved you wrong

(***LOVED YOU TOO FUCKING LONG***)

If this is grace—

***THEN BURN IT OUT OF ME***

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### **Breakdown / Bridge (FULL SCREAMS)**

***I GAVE YOU EVERYTHING***

***YOU GAVE ME NOTHING BACK***

***I BLED SO YOU COULD FEEL ALIVE***

***YOU CALLED IT LOVE — I CALL IT THE FUCKING KNIFE***

***YOU DON’T GET MY PAIN***

***YOU DON’T GET MY SLEEP***

***YOU DON’T GET TO HAUNT ME***

***JUST BECAUSE I WAS WEAK***

*(pause — instruments drop)*

**Whisper (Clean, isolated)**

I still miss you

***AND I FUCKING HATE THAT***

**Final Chorus (Clean Lead + Layered Screams)**

I’m hollow as a prayer—no god responds

(***NO ONE ANSWERS ME***)

Just silence dressed in light

(***JUST LIES IN WHITE***)

I carved my truth into my bones

(***CARVED IT DEEP***)

So I don’t disappear tonight

(***I’M STILL HERE***)

I loved you raw, I loved you wrong

(***BUT I SURVIVED YOU***)

If this is worship, hear me now—

***I CHOOSE MYSELF***

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**Outro (Screams, fading into ambience)**

***NO MORE ALTARS***

***NO MORE CHAINS***

***I AM NOT YOUR FUCKING MIRACLE***

*(final line — spoken)*

I’m the one who walked away.

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