A Prayer That Never Spoke Back

**Verse I**

I laid my heart on your altar stone

Hands still shaking, I stood alone

Gold on my tongue, blood in my throat

I said your name like an oath

I learned your silence by memory

Wore your absence like jewelry

If this is love, let it ruin me

I am ready to disappear

**Pre-Chorus**

I gave until there was nothing left

If you were listening, you never said

A word

**Chorus**

I bled in the dark just to feel you near

I called you God, you called it fear

I knelt where the light couldn’t reach

And loved you like a disease

I broke myself to be enough

Held my breath for your touch

This was a prayer that never spoke back

I gave you my heart

You gave me lack

**Verse II**

I learned devotion from open wounds

From saying “stay” to empty rooms

Your shadow sleeps inside my chest

A ghost I never could confess

I made a home in the fallout

Called it faith, called it love

If you are heaven, then let me rot

I was never who you want

**Pre-Chorus**

I gave until my hands were bare

If you were watching

You never cared

**Chorus**

I bled in the dark just to feel you near

I called you God, you called it fear

I knelt where the light couldn’t reach

And loved you like a disease

I broke myself to be enough

Held my breath for your touch

This was a prayer that never spoke back

I gave you my heart

You gave me lack

**Bridge (soft, stripped back)**

If love is mercy

Why does it hurt like truth

If you are holy

Why do I feel used

Say my name

Or say goodbye

Anything is kinder than the night

**Breakdown (heavy, desperate)**

I GAVE

UNTIL I WAS EMPTY

I WORSHIPPED

WHAT WAS NEVER MINE

**Final Chorus (full)**

I bled in the dark just to feel you near

I called you God, you called it fear

I knelt where the light couldn’t reach

And loved you like a disease

I broke myself to be enough

Held my breath for your touch

This was a prayer that never spoke back

I gave you my heart

You gave me—

**Outro**

Silence.

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