Cardboard Cathedral

**Cardboard Cathedral** **[TheSoundry MakeYourNoise]** Created for **The Soundry — #MakeYourNoise!** challenge. Built from my own raw cardboard percussion recording: https://suno.com/s/YmWZoCyt7JUhloQm **Music, Lyrics, Arrangement \u0026 Concept:** Xirbaf **Lead Muse:** Lucy © 2026 Xirbaf. All rights reserved. ────────── LYRICS ────────── [Intro] No marble. No gold. No perfect stone. Just a hollow thing… and the hands that made it speak. [Verse 1] I found a room in a folded box, thin walls breathing in the dark. Every crease was a hidden line, every scar became a mark. They laughed at the sound it made, like it was meant to be thrown away. But I heard ribs in the empty frame, I heard a pulse beneath the grey. [Pre-Chorus] Strike once, it answers. Strike twice, it breathes. All this nothing standing under me. [Chorus] Cardboard cathedral, rising from the floor. No marble in the pillars, no gold upon the door. Cardboard cathedral, built from nerve and noise. You called it fragile— I gave it a voice. [Instrumental Break] [Verse 2] I do not need your polished halls, your perfect lines, your shining names. I have rhythm in my hands, I have heat inside the frame. Let the ceiling bend and shake, let the rafters bruise and strain. If it cracks, it means it’s living. If it hurts, it learns my name. [Pre-Chorus 2] Small things remember when pressure makes them ring. I was never empty— I was waiting to sing. [Chorus 2] Cardboard cathedral, rising from the floor. No marble in the pillars, no gold upon the door. Cardboard cathedral, built from nerve and noise. You called it worthless— I gave it a voice. [Industrial Break] [Bridge] No stone. No crown. No borrowed shine. No perfect shape to prove it mine. I built this echo from the ground, from every scrap you stepped around. You wanted smooth— I kept the scar. You wanted quiet— I struck hard. And if it bends, let it bend. That is how a body learns to stand again. [Final Build] Fold by fold, wall by wall, I made a place from almost nothing at all. Beat by beat, breath by breath, I gave this hollow thing a shape that conquered death. [Final Chorus] Cardboard cathedral, rising from the floor. No marble in the pillars, no gold upon the door. Cardboard cathedral, built from nerve and noise. You called it fragile— I gave it a voice. Cardboard cathedral, standing in the flame. Not made to last forever— made to bear my name. Cardboard cathedral, hear the rafters roar. You called it nothing— I made it more. [Outro] No marble. No gold. Just a hollow thing… still breathing. And I made it speak.