Hollow
heavy metal, thrash metal, hard rock, speed metal nothing else matters style metal ballad e minor 70 bpm 6 8 feel clean fingerpicked electric guitar with chorus and long plate reverb intimate low baritone male vocal close to mic vocal is tired slightly cracked like singing to an empty room slow tom heavy drums enter at verse 2 builds to wide distorted guitars and cello pad dark melancholic cinematic no fast double kick
Hollow
heavy metal, thrash metal, hard rock, speed metal nothing else matters style metal ballad e minor 70 bpm 6 8 feel clean fingerpicked electric guitar with chorus and long plate reverb intimate low baritone male vocal close to mic vocal is tired slightly cracked like singing to an empty room slow tom heavy drums enter at verse 2 builds to wide distorted guitars and cello pad dark melancholic cinematic no fast double kick
Lyrics
[Chords: Em - D - C - G - B7 - Em]
[Verse 1]
[Chords: Em - D - C - G]
I wake up in the hollow where the morning never lands
Same ceiling, same silence, same stranger in my hands
I talk out loud just to hear something break the silence
The mirror answers back with a face I barely recognize
[Chords: B7 - Em - D - C]
Every word they threw, every glance that cut like wire
Didn't kill me, just left me numb and wired to the quiet
[Chorus - still clean, vocal opens up]
[Chords: G - D - Em - C]
I'm sick of being numb, this weight keeps dragging me under
I'd rather feel the burn than stay buried in this grey
Strip away the numb, let the cold hit like thunder
Even pain is proof that I'm still here anyway
[Chords: D - C - G - B7]
Nothing else matters if I can't feel anything
[Verse 2]
[Chords: Em - D - C - G]
After sleep there's nothing, just a room that won't exhale
After love goes sour, I'm the echo that remains
I fill my life with noise, with screens, with anything to drown it
But when it all goes quiet, the hollow comes back the same
[Chords: B7 - Em - D - C]
I am lost inside the static I created to survive
[Chorus - add drums, light distortion]
[Chords: G - D - Em - C]
I'm sick of being numb, this weight keeps dragging me under
I'd rather feel the ache than rot inside this haze
Tear away the numb, let the storm come down like thunder
Give me anything real to cut through all this haze
[Chords: D - C - G - B7]
Nothing else matters but breaking out of the cage
[Bridge - drop to just guitar, whisper then build]
[Chords: C - G - D - Em]
I don't want to disappear, I want to bleed to feel the fire
Cut the numbness out, even if it leaves a scar
Let the dark have its moment, then watch it get tired
[Chords: Am - B7 - Em - D]
I'm still breathing underneath all of this rust
[Final Chorus - full heavy, guitars open]
[Chords: Em - D - C - G]
I'm done pretending hollow is the same as being strong
If I have to shatter just to breathe, then let me break tonight
[Chords: B7 - C - D - Em]
Wash this darkness away, I won't wear it like a shroud
I'd rather burn alive than fade out without a sound
[Outro - back to clean picking, let fade]
[Chords: Em - D - C - G - B7 - Em]
Leave me empty, leave me honest, leave me anything but numb