A Hollow Heart on an Empty Stage | The Empty Stage - The Shadow & The Song S05E04

[Verse 1] The final note had left the room The candles burned their last The velvet chairs stood cold and still Like witnesses to the past They carried him beyond the doors They cleaned the silver tray And no one asked me how it felt To sing his life away [Verse 2] I waited for the shaking hands The sickness in my chest The broken breath, the hidden tears The ghosts that never rest But nothing moved beneath my ribs No prayer, no wound, no flame Just hollow air and quiet dust Where sorrow used to stay [Pre-Chorus] The stage was empty So was I No voice inside me Asked me why [Chorus] No fear, no guilt, no prayer, no cry No trembling truth behind my eyes I waited for the pain to start But silence made no sound No fear, no guilt, no wound, no shame No ghost that whispered back my name I searched for what was left of me But nothing could be found [Verse 3] My lute lay heavy in my hands No kinder than a blade The strings were only strings again The song was only trade I used to feel the room grow cold Before the daggers flew Now death could pass beside my feet And I would not move too [Verse 4] A master crossed the empty floor His footsteps soft and slow He smiled as if the quiet proved What I already know “Pain passes, child, purpose remains The heart learns not to break” I looked at him and felt no hate No life left to awake [Pre-Chorus] The stage was empty So was I No voice inside me Asked me why [Chorus] No fear, no guilt, no prayer, no cry No trembling truth behind my eyes I waited for the pain to start But silence made no sound No fear, no guilt, no wound, no shame No ghost that whispered back my name I searched for what was left of me But nothing could be found [Bridge] Was this peace or punishment? Was this death that learned to breathe? Was I free because I felt no chain Or lost because I couldn’t grieve? If mercy died and silence slept If sorrow left my skin Then what remained beneath the song When nothing answered within? [Verse 5] The chandeliers kept burning gold Above the polished floor A single petal touched the blood They had not seen before I thought perhaps I’d bend to weep Or kneel where he had lain But even staring at the stain I could not call it pain [Final Chorus] No fear, no guilt, no prayer, no cry No trembling truth behind my eyes I waited for the pain to start But silence made no sound No fear, no guilt, no wound, no shame No ghost that whispered back my name I searched for what was left of me But nothing could be found [Outro] The empty stage remembered all The song, the blade, the fall But I stood there with open eyes And felt nothing at all #rock #story #music #fantasy #bard #dnd