(Verse 1) I'm sitting here just wasting away feels like all I can do is just pray I feel like I'm falling apart I keep reaching and reaching and all I can do is just say God help me to calm down my brain... I feel like I'm wasting away... This hollow empty ache, it grips me in the chest, This heavy air is thick, and I can barely find the sound, To make a single whisper come up from this ground... I need to feel a touch, to finally find some rest. The walls are closing in, a silence I can't break, I'm searching for a sign, for a single path to take. (Chorus) Oh, this hollow shaking deep inside my bones, I'm crying out for something that this silence never knows. I need a break from the echoes that bind my mind, God, reach through the darkness and leave no part behind. There's a future burning bright, a life I've got to find, Help me leave the pieces of my sorrow behind. (Verse 2) But I felt the shift when my knuckles started to bleed, Fighting back against the chains of what I used to need. I dragged my broken self out of the freezing mud, And washed the bitter memories out of my own blood. I swore I would not sink again, I won't go down to drown, I found the only anchor that could turn this struggle 'round. I dug my heels in deep and found the fire in my core, I swore I'd walk away and never look back anymore. (Chorus) Oh, this hollow shaking deep inside my bones, I'm crying out for something that this silence never knows. I need a break from the echoes that bind my mind, God, reach through the darkness and leave no part behind. There's a future burning bright, a life I've got to find, Help me leave the pieces of my sorrow behind. (Verse 3) The fight isn't done, the shadows are still close, The over-thinking is a cage nobody knows. I cut the good people off, before they get too near, Convinced my damage means they're safer if I disappear. It takes every drop of my tired, shaking will, To stand here in the doorway and force my body still. My feet are cemented down on the little stone I found, This heavy anchor is dragging my mind through the ground. (Verse 4) I'm running on the fumes of a life I used to know, Watching all my energy just silently go. The nightmares are still holding me past the rising sun, And I can never shake the feeling that the damage has been done. I feel the constant churning and the pressure on my chest, And I have not forgotten what it is to finally rest. I'm struggling to trust that the path is not fake... God, do I have the strength to watch this lonely burden break? (Chorus) Oh, this hollow shaking deep inside my bones, I'm crying out for something that this silence never knows. I need a break from the echoes that bind my mind, God, reach through the darkness and leave no part behind. There's a future burning bright, a life I've got to find, Help me leave the pieces of my sorrow behind. (Bridge) I let the weight drop hard right where the path began to rise, I look up at the sky, and see the strength reflected in my own eyes. The shift was not a whisper, it was a roar I felt within my soul... Pulling me from the depths of hell where I thought I'd lost control. I will not carry this alone, I am no longer chained to the fear, I'm finally breaking forward, and I'm leaving the darkness right here. (Verse 5) So, the time I was broken, I won't pretend I'm fine, I'm cutting the dead weight from every single vine. Now the silence isn't empty, it is filled with air, My hands are open wide, prepared for what is there. I built a fire in the wreckage, watching my fear burn down, I found my way out, and I swear I left the devil in the ground. I'm not wasting any time on the fear I used to know, I’m focused on the sunrise, and the new life I will claim... (Chorus) Oh, this hollow shaking deep inside my bones, I'm crying out for something that this silence never knows. I need a break from the echoes that bind my mind, God, reach through the darkness and leave no part behind. There's a future burning bright, a life I've got to find, Help me leave the pieces of my sorrow behind.
