[Modern metalcore, atmospheric post-metal, cinematic orchestral, soul-crushing devastation] [Intro: haunting cello, no vocals, building dread] [Verse 1: whispered broken male vocals, sparse instrumentation] I trace your ghost in empty rooms at 3 AM Talk to shadows that don't answer back again The silence here has teeth, it feeds on what we were I'm a museum of a love that never occurred [Verse 2: intensity building, cello and violin weaving] I built cathedrals in my mind where you're still mine Light candles for a saint who crossed the enemy line You're out there breathing air I'll never share While I'm dissolving into somebody who was never there [Pre-Chorus: rising desperation, double kicks entering] I'm screaming in a language only I can hear Reaching for a hand that disappeared Tell me how to stop loving a memory Tell me how to kill what's killing me [Chorus: explosive, soaring anguished vocals, full orchestra, crushing double bass] I'M A MONUMENT TO WASTED DEVOTION DROWNING ALONE IN AN EMPTY OCEAN You were my religion, now I pray to nothing I'm burning alive but the ashes feel nothing NOTHING, NOTHING, NOTHING I gave you my soul, you don't even know my name I'm choking on forever that will never came This loneliness has gravity, I can't escape I'm screaming at the void you left in your shape [Verse 3: shattered whisper, violins piercing] I memorized your breathing like a dying prayer Now I suffocate on all this poisoned air You moved on like I was intermission While I'm trapped inside our last collision [Verse 4: building rage and sorrow] I wear your absence like a second skin It's the only thing I have that's ever been Close to you, close to real, close to whole Now I'm just a graveyard for my own soul [Bridge: breakdown, raw screaming over aggressive strings and double kicks] DO YOU EVER THINK OF ME AT ALL? DO YOU EVER HEAR ME WHEN I CALL? I'm erasing myself one day at a time Loving you is the slowest suicide LOOK WHAT YOU DID TO ME LOOK WHAT I LET YOU DO I'M DISAPPEARING AND IT'S ALL FOR YOU [Breakdown: cello pizzicato with drums, guttural emotion] I loved you (You never asked me to) I'd die for you (You'd never notice I was gone) I'm nothing (I was always nothing) Nothing Nothing NOTHING [Final Chorus: devastating climax, full orchestra crying] I'M A MONUMENT TO WASTED DEVOTION BLEEDING OUT ALONE IN AN EMPTY OCEAN You were my everything, I was your forgetting I'm burning in hell but the flames stopped spreading LOOK AT ME, LOOK AT ME, LOOK AT ME But your eyes will never find me in the dark I gave you my forever, you gave me scars This loneliness is quicksand, I can't breathe I'm dying for someone who already left me [Outro: whispered over dying cello and violin, soul-destroying] So this is what it feels like To love someone who doesn't know you exist To scream underwater forever To be a ghost before you're dead I'll carry you like a terminal disease Until there's nothing left of me And you'll never know You'll never know You were the knife And I was always bleeding [Final whisper, barely audible] I loved you ...you never even asked why [Production: haunting cello and violin throughout, emotional double kick drums, atmospheric devastation, voices cracking with genuine pain, make the listener feel every wound] [Vocal delivery: transitions from broken whispers to anguished screaming to hollow acceptance, voice should sound like it's physically hurting, raw vulnerability, complete emotional annihilation] [Emotional core: unrequited devotion as slow death, loving someone who forgot you exist, loneliness as a physical presence, beautiful agonizing destruction, making peace with being nothing to someone who is everything]
