The Hollow Knight

[Verse 1]
From the black egg, a crack of silence
Born of God and endless night
Down in the pit, with all my brothers
Just another failed new life
Clawed my way up through the bodies
Empty shells and sightless eyes
You can't infect a thing that's hollow
You can't kill what doesn't die

[Chorus]
I wear no crown, I speak no word
I carry just a sharpened nail
I am the shade, the creeping dark
The silence in your holy wail
No mind to think, no will to break
Just emptiness inside this shell
I am the one the King discarded
Crawling back to bring you hell

[Verse 2]
Through fungal wastes and sleeping cities
Past the ghosts of what you broke
They see a knight, a tiny hero
They don't see the void beneath the cloak
Every soul I reap and gather
Fuels a fire with no heat
Your blinding light, your sweet infection
Tastes of nothing but defeat.

[Chorus]
I wear no crown, I speak no word
I carry just a sharpened nail
I am the shade, the creeping dark
The silence in your holy wail
No mind to think, no will to break
Just emptiness inside this shell
I am the one the King discarded
Crawling back to bring you hell

[Bridge]
You thought you found the perfect vessel
Chained him up and sealed the door.
But an idea is a poison
Made your savior something more.
Now you're screaming in the dream realm
As your kingdom turns to dust.
But I was born down in the darkness
In the silence, and the rust

[Guitar Solo]

[Chorus]
I wear no crown, I speak no word
I carry just a sharpened nail
I am the shade, the creeping dark
The silence in your holy wail
No mind to think, no will to break
Just emptiness inside this shell
I am the one the King discarded
Crawling back to bring you hell

[Outro]
The Abyss waits
It always waits
My siblings call
From shadowed gates
No voice to cry
No voice to cry
No voice to cry out suffering...
Just void.