Feed the Hollow

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Author Notes:
“Feed the Hollow” explores the machinery of manipulation—how power structures use misinformation to fracture identity, stoke division, and obscure their own exploitation of a nation’s trust. Beneath the lyrics lies a warning: when truth is commodified and outrage is engineered, the hollow they feed is the one we leave within ourselves.

[intro]
Whispers through the wire.
Tongues of smoke that preach desire.
Feeding ghosts in chapel suits —
Sermons dressed in tailored fire (tailored fire).

[verse 1]
Carved in binary tapestry.
A dream repackaged — neat and clean.
They auction off our apathy.
Behind a flag-stained plasma screen.
The shepherd grins with serpent grace.
Divides the flock by shade and face.
And sells us myths in seven shades.
While looting futures, masked in praise.

[hook and line]
We bleed, while they borrow...
Still they, feed the hollow (hollow).

[chorus of truth]
Feed the hollow, keep us fractured.
Break the mirror, sell the frame (sell the frame).
Drown the crowd in filtered rapture.
Swallow fear and shift the blame (shift the blame).
Burn the wages, flood the ledgers.
Pull the thread and twist the yoke (twist the yoke)—
We choke on words they’ve rendered sacred.
Truth turned rumor, law turned joke (law turned joke).

[verse 2]
Scroll and scream, divide and trade.
Echoes fenced in curated rage.
Algorithms stitch within the cage.
Where brother turns on kin betrayed.
Through viral hymns they desecrate.
A nation diced on silver plates.
While cloaked in market smoke they feast
On every doubt their headlines leech.

[hook and line]
We bleed, while they borrow...
Still they, feed the hollow (hollow).

[bridge]
O' children born under static skies,
Your cradle rocked by sanctioned lies.
The beast wears badges, suits, and ties,
And calls its profit “sacrifice”.
The puppeteers behind the veil.
Fan every flame, then watch us flail —
A nation dancing on a rail,
While futures auctioned, and dreams derail.

[chorus to action]
Feed the hollow, keep us splintered.
Ink the creed and shame the scar (shame the scar).
Truth’s disfigured, redrawn, hindered.
Lost beneath the avatar (the avatar).
Raise the veil or rot in slumber.
Name the hand that feeds the fire (feeds the fire)—
Or chant in chains and count the number,
While the price climbs ever higher (ever higher).

[Outro]
They never touch the blade they throw.
Still we,
feed the hollow (feed the hollow).

Still we,
feed the hollow (feed the hollow).

[fade to end]

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