The Hollow

Album: Mer de Noms (2000)
Charted: 72
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  • Run desire, run, sexual being
    Run him like a blade to and through the heart
    No conscience, one motive
    To cater to the hollow

    Screaming feed me here
    Fill me up again
    And temporarily pacify this hungering

    So grow, libido, throw
    Dominoes of indiscretions down
    Falling all around, in cycles, in circles
    Constantly consuming
    Conquer and devour

    'Cause it's time to bring the fire down
    Bridle all this indiscretion
    Long enough to edify
    And permanently fill this hollow

    Screaming feed me here
    Fill me up again
    Temporarily pacifying

    Feed me here
    Fill me up again
    Temporarily pacifying Writer/s: Billy Howerdel, Maynard James Keenan
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 3

  • Elliot from UsaThis song reminds me all too well of what it feels like to be a victim of sexual abuse. Someone's own sexual desires can be so strong that they blindly harm others to fill their own hollow. I can't help but think of my own experiences when I hear this song. It's amazing and it sounds so good, but it hurts so much to listen to if I'm not in a good headspace. I guess that's the whole point of it.
  • Adam from Atttleboro, MaUse sex to fill the whole or void in your life, kinda like how a girl that gets out of a long relationship just goes out and has sex with someone they need to feel like there needed or wanted, once again we as people can be prette pathetic at times.
  • Nick from Knoxville, TnThis song was preformed on David Letterman
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