Hollow Hero

Lyrics

Intro
I woke up in the walls
With my name turned off
Cold eyes in the vent
Cold hands on my thoughts
(hold still)
(hold still)

Verse 1
I move like a glitch in a kid’s old toy
Clockwork jaw with a dead-end voice
Black ink pulse in the back of my skull
Every little fear got a hook, got pulled
I heard my shadow say, “You’re not alone”
Then it took my shape and it called my phone
Static in the grout, feet in the sink
I don’t blink first, I don’t blink, I sink
They left me a key made of teeth and wire
I kissed the lock and it learned my fire
Now the room leans back when I step inside
Like it knows the shape of the thing I hide
(thing I hide)
(thing I hide)

Pre-Chorus
Say my name soft
Watch it split
I was built for this
Built to rip
No soul, just spark
No sleep, no peace
Hands on the seam
Let it crease

Chorus
Hero, hero
Say it again
Hero, hero
I don’t feel pain
Hero, hero
Hollow and gold
Hero, hero
I’m out of control
(hero)
(hero)

Verse 2
I got frost in my teeth, heat in my stare
A prayer on the tongue and a blade in the air
Every “you can’t” turn to dust in my chest
Every step I take leaves a dent in the rest
Mama said, “Boy, don’t answer that knock”
But the knock kept time like a broken clock
Now the walls all hum when I pass by
Like a sick machine with a human cry
I fed my doubts to the furnace deep
Watched them come back with a new heartbeat
If you want my face, take the one I wore
I shed that skin on a concrete floor
(come close)
(come close)

Pre-Chorus
Say my name soft
Watch it split
I was built for this
Built to rip
No soul, just spark
No sleep, no peace
Hands on the seam
Let it crease

Chorus
Hero, hero
Say it again
Hero, hero
I don’t feel pain
Hero, hero
Hollow and gold
Hero, hero
I’m out of control
(hero)
(hero)

Bridge
I hear them inside the walls
Tiny mouths in the paint
Telling me, “Be the knife”
Telling me, “Wear the stain”
I laughed in a voice not mine
Then the laugh got cold
Then the laugh got low
Then it swallowed my soul
If I’m a monster, I learned it well
From the mirror, from the room, from the kiss of hell
Tell me who you see
When the mask breaks free
Tell me who you need
When it looks like me

Breakdown
Tick
Tock
Break
Lock
Hands
Off
Name
Gone
(hold it)
(hold it)
I’m the ghost in the code
I’m the stain in the bone

Verse 3
Now the floorboards talk when I drag through the dark
Every scar on my skin got a camera mark
I been choking on the truth like a mouthful of nails
Still I smile with a grin that never fails
They want clean lines, they want calm and neat
I bring ash in my lungs and a pulse too beat
I’m the boy from the crack in the basement light
I’m the thing that won’t leave when you lock it tight
So if I come for the crown, don’t act surprised
I was born in the noise with the dead in my eyes
I don’t need your faith, I don’t need your hand
I can walk through the fear like a man unmanned
(yeah)
(yeah)

Chorus
Hero, hero
Say it again
Hero, hero
I don’t feel pain
Hero, hero
Hollow and gold
Hero, hero
I’m out of control
(hero)
(hero)

Outro
I woke up in the walls
With my name turned off
Cold eyes in the vent
Cold hands on my thoughts
Hero
Hero