A Nameless Hymn Lyrics – Lorna Shore

A Nameless Hymn Lyrics Meaning

The repeated chant at the start sounds like a shared cry from people who feel cursed and abandoned. It’s raw and simple — a label they give to their pain. When the singer says they were left for dead, it’s a claim of betrayal and neglect, standing in a broken, fading moment where hope feels distant.

The next part talks about trying to heal by holding onto strong beliefs. The singer says they gave up their world and even their sanity for those beliefs, but now they see hypocrisy in what they trusted. They admit they aren’t humble and wonder where Empyria — a lost place or refuge — has gone, asking for help they can’t find.

[Chorus]
This chorus paints a picture of slow decay and struggle. The group is scraping by among soot and ruin, barely surviving while trapped in problems they helped create. They feel abandoned and left to suffer in a hole they were digging, yet they still reach for light hoping for relief or cleansing. The singer worries they might have become just a forgotten voice, an unnamed hymn that no one remembers. That image shows deep loneliness and the fear that all their sacrifice and pain turned them into something invisible and unheard.

The singer then admits feeling forsaken and sold out, saying they chose dark paths and now wonder if they’re paying the price. They talk about continuous sacrifice as everything around them fades, feeling stuck with nowhere to go and fearing the future they once dreaded. The plea for Empyria returns, showing how much they need that lost refuge.

[Chorus]
This shorter chorus repeats the image of living in decay and the pain of being abandoned. Even though they’re stuck in a mess they made, they still reach for something better. The singer fears becoming a forgotten voice — an unnamed hymn lost in the crowd, crying out but unanswered.

[Guitar Solo]
The solo section feels like a quiet, painful pause where the singer lies wasting away, waiting for release. They picture themselves as a penitent lamb facing an inevitable end, still insisting they are the voice everyone forgot, calling from the dark.

[Breakdown]
This breakdown is fierce and raw, like someone ripping off a mask and shouting everything inside. The singer says life has been pure torment despite giving everything to a faith or cause that promised to save them. They endured suffering hoping it would cleanse them, but instead it pushed them toward madness. The light they needed never reached them, and isolation closed in. Anger and grief spill out as a blunt confession that they are the forgotten voice, betrayed and alone. The repeated lines that follow join that personal outrage to a larger, shared fate — a tired acceptance that they and others have been cut down, left behind, and face a grim, ruined present.