LOVE WITHOUT POSSESSION by AbandonAllVows - Zona

LOVE WITHOUT POSSESSION by AbandonAllVows - Zona

Lyrics

🩸 LYRICS

Intro (low, distant):

I never stopped loving you

I just stopped asking you to stay

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Verse 1:

I learned your absence by heart

Every room still breathes your name

I carry the shape of your smile

Like a fracture I can’t escape

I watched you grow beyond me

Into something I couldn’t be

And I stayed quiet through the damage

Because silence was mercy

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Pre-Chorus (pull back → tension):

If I hold on

You break

So I let go

And I bleed

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🔥 CHORUS (TWO PARTS)

Chorus – Part I (emotional weight):

I hope you wake up without the pain

I helped you carry for so long

If your future needs my absence

Then I’ll become what’s gone

Chorus – Part II (heavier, darker):

I’ll carve my loss into the ground

And call it love, not defeat

If your happiness kills me slowly

Then I’ll die on my feet

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Verse 2 (faster, heavier):

I bit my tongue through every goodbye

So you’d never see me fall

I let you walk into forever

While I burned behind these walls

You don’t owe me a memory

You don’t owe me your regret

If letting you live means losing you

Then this is the debt

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Chorus (repeat — layered, heavier):

Part I:

I hope you wake up without the pain

I helped you carry for so long

Part II:

If your happiness kills me slowly

Then I’ll die on my feet

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🔥 BUILD → BREAKDOWN (MID-SONG)

Build-Up (last vocals):

Go

Don’t turn back

Take the life

I couldn’t give

I’ll stay here

And break—

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Breakdown (INSTRUMENTAL ONLY):

(No vocals)

(Heavy chugging

Controlled rage

Pain without hatred)

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🔥 FINAL CHORUS (LAST — EXTENDED, MOST POWERFUL)

Final Chorus – Part I (drawn out):

I hope you find the peace I couldn’t be

Even if it erases me

I’ll carry this alone forever

So you don’t have to bleed

Final Chorus – Part II (MAX INTENSITY):

If loving you means losing you

Then carve it into my chest

I won’t chain you to my suffering

I’ll survive this emptiness

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[⚠️ FINAL BUILD → BREAKDOWN (CLOSER)]

Final Build-Up (last vocals ever):

Live

Be free

Forget my name

If you need to

I’ll still love you—

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FINAL BREAKDOWN (INSTRUMENTAL ONLY — ENDING):

(Slower crushing hits

Then fast, relentless chugs

Wide, emotional tone

Let the riff repeat

Let it linger

End hard or fade into distortion)