What The Silence Took From Me

**Verse I**

I learned your shape in the dark

From the space you left in my arms

I traced your name in my skin

Like a language carved by loss

You were a promise in flame

I was the ash you became

Every time I said “stay”

You answered by pulling away

**Pre-Chorus**

I gave you everything I had

You asked for more

And I said yes

**Chorus**

I laid my love at your feet

Like a body begging for sleep

If this is faith, then let it break me

I was never meant to leave

I bled myself into truth

Just to be something you’d choose

I called it love, you called it weak

Now I am what the silence took from me

**Verse II**

I kept you holy in my chest

Even when you hollowed it

I made excuses for the pain

Called it depth, called it fate

You drank devotion like a cure

Left me sick and wanting more

If I was made to worship you

Why did you walk when I fell through?

**Pre-Chorus**

I gave you all I couldn’t save

You watched me fade

And stayed the same

**Chorus**

I laid my love at your feet

Like a body begging for sleep

If this is faith, then let it break me

I was never meant to leave

I bled myself into truth

Just to be something you’d choose

I called it love, you called it weak

Now I am what the silence took from me

**Bridge (soft, almost whispered)**

Say it was real

Say it meant something

Say my name

Like I was human

If you are God

Then I was nothing

If I am empty

You made me this way

**Breakdown (heavy, crushing)**

I GAVE

UNTIL I DISAPPEARED

I PRAYED

AND NOTHING HEARD

**Final Chorus (full, emotional)**

I laid my love at your feet

Like a body begging for sleep

If this is faith, then let it break me

I was never meant to leave

I bled myself into truth

Just to be something you’d choose

I called it love, you called it weak

Now I am what the silence took from me

**Outro**

I stayed.

You vanished.

That was the offering.

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