Hollow Ledger

### Dark Mythic Horror Song #### Verse 1 Black tide on my palms, the sand remembers A ribbon of teeth unthreads the sky Fingers read the runes that flare like embers Where every lost name learns to lie I step where maps forget to follow Past the hush of what I knew A whisper folds into a hollow And the hollow answers true --- #### Pre Chorus **Hold the light, don’t let it fall** **Every echo wants a mouth** --- #### Chorus **Call the hollow, call it home** **Where the stories wake and roam** Glass-breathed dragons count our debts Teeth like clocks that never rest I walk the rim, I cross the line Past the charts the elders signed **Call the hollow, call it home** **And the hollow swallows whole** --- #### Verse 2 Stone boats drift on blackened oceans Sails sewn from the last of dusk Kings with paper crowns and poison motions Offer bargains stitched with rust They ask for one small, honest name I press mine into their palm It bleeds a map of other faces And the map begins to calm --- #### Pre Chorus **Keep the thread, don’t let it fray** **Every promise finds a prey** --- #### Chorus **Call the hollow, call it home** **Where the stories wake and roam** Forests grow from whispered vows Roots that pull like hungry mouths I walk the rim, I cross the line Past the charts the elders signed **Call the hollow, call it home** **And the hollow swallows whole** --- #### Bridge 1 If I trade a memory for a door The door will learn the shape of war This magic eats the edges first It learns your name and then your thirst --- #### Verse 3 Lanterns hung on borrowed mornings Fishermen of futures cast A child hums a compass warning That points to everything I passed A stranger comes with my reflection Smiles like something I once knew She folds my edges into direction And the direction folds to you --- #### Chorus Variation **Call the hollow, call it home** **All the places we forgot** Kingdoms sleeping under glass Waiting for the moment to rot I walk the rim, I cross the line Past the charts the elders signed **Call the hollow, call it home** **And the hollow swallows whole** --- #### Bridge 2 This hollow keeps a ledger, teeth for every name It writes me in the margins, signs me to the flame I give the story back and find the story keeps my bones It hums the tune I used to know and turns it into stones --- #### Bridge 3 When the ink runs dry the runes will gnaw the page When the choir sings my name it wakes a darker age I am the coin, the ledger, and the hand that pays the toll I call the hollow home and it calls me whole --- #### Final Chorus **Call the hollow, call it home** **Where the stories wake and roam** Dragons breathe and gardens rot Mirrors show the face I lost I walk the rim, I cross the line Past the charts the elders signed **Call the hollow, call it home** **And the hollow swallows whole** --- #### Outro Black tide on my palms, the sand remembers A ribbon of teeth that keeps my name I leave a trail of hollow embers So someone else can call the same