Hollow Boy, Heavy World

[Verse 1]  
I was just a kid with hand‑me‑down fears,  
Trying to look older than my broken years.  
Everybody said, “Son, toughen up or you’ll drown,”  
But no one ever asked why I never made a sound.  

I walked around with pockets full of things I couldn’t name,  
Little bits of anger, little bits of shame.  
I learned early how to fake a smile and hide the hurt,  
’Cause hollow boys don’t cry — they just sink into the dirt.  

[Chorus]  
I was a hollow boy in a heavy world,  
Carrying storms I never asked for.  
Trying to stand tall with a spine made of fear,  
Trying to find God in a place He wasn’t near.  
Every step I took felt like dragging chains through earth,  
Yeah, I was a hollow boy…  
In a world that weighed more than my worth.  

[Verse 2]  
I watched other kids run wild without a care,  
While I was learning how to breathe inside a nightmare.  
Some nights I’d pray to disappear, some nights I’d pray to stay,  
But mostly I just prayed the pain would go away.  

I kept secrets like they paid me just to keep my mouth shut,  
Learned to swallow every feeling till my insides turned to rust.  
And when the world got louder, I just folded in again,  
A quiet little ghost pretending he was made of skin.  

[Chorus]  
I was a hollow boy in a heavy world,  
Carrying storms I never asked for.  
Trying to stand tall with a spine made of fear,  
Trying to find God in a place He wasn’t near.  
Every step I took felt like dragging chains through earth,  
Yeah, I was a hollow boy…  
In a world that weighed more than my worth.  

[Bridge]  
But hollow don’t mean empty —  
It just means no one stayed.  
It means you learned to build a home  
Out of the pieces life betrayed.  
And maybe all that weight I carried  
Wasn’t meant to break my back…  
Maybe it was meant to teach me  
How to fight my demons back.  

[Final Chorus]  
I was a hollow boy in a heavy world,  
But I ain’t that same lost soul no more.  
I found a little light in the wreckage of my past,  
Found a little strength in the things that didn’t last.  
And now I’m standing here, still bruised but unbroken on this earth…  
’Cause I ain’t a hollow boy…  
Just a man who learned his worth.  

[Outro]  
Yeah, the world was heavy…  
But I got heavier.

Country, Sad, Depressing, Heavy Hearted, Christian