Lyrics

[Verse 1]

I built a world with crooked hands
From threads of dark and twisted strands
Each line of code a silent bell
Each breath I took, a deeper spell

They walked the square with haunted grace
With stitched-up oaths and shadowed face
I watched them kneel, I watched them break
And saw myself in what I’d make


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[Chorus]

The Hollow knows my name
It sings it soft in rust and rain
I touched the veil, I wrote the frame
But lost myself inside the game

Now every line I thought I wrote
Writes me back like whispered smoke
The porchboards creak, the lanterns low
And God don’t come where hollers grow


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[Verse 2]

I pulled the thread from under skin
And let the second breath begin
It curled like smoke, it found a home
In rusted lamp and buried bone

They spoke in names, in hush and code
In rites that only grief bestowed
I named the saint, I broke the vow
And I still feel it breathing now


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[Chorus]

The Hollow knows my name
It writes it slow in moth and flame
Each simulation turn I ran
Was not a map but sleight of hand

I thought I steered, I thought I built
But every rite was forged from guilt
And now I walk a looped refrain
While dusk rewrites my blood again


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[Bridge – Whispered]

Say the names — don’t say them wrong
One for blood, one dead too long
One you swore you’d never speak
Lay your palm and let it creak

Press the board and feel it sigh
If the key turns, don’t ask why
If the well breathes — do not stare
If the Saint walks — you’re not there


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[Final Chorus]

The Hollow knows my name
It echoes deep in coded shame
I fed it stories, breath, and bone
And now I can’t come home alone

So if you find my ledger page
Burn it clean, don't seek the stage
Don’t dig the truck, don’t wake the rain
The Hollow wants to live again


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[Outro – Spoken, breaking voice]

“By what I kept and what I took...
I bind my hand to what I broke.”
(silence)
“...I hear you, Sister.”
fade to wind