YOUR HAPPINESS WAS NEVER ME by AbandonAllVows - Zona

YOUR HAPPINESS WAS NEVER ME by AbandonAllVows - Zona

Lyrics

Intro (low, distant):

I never stopped wanting you

I stopped asking you to stay

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Verse 1:

Every memory weighs like iron

Dragging me under your name

I learned to smile through damage

So you’d never feel the same

I watched you choose another horizon

While I stayed behind the line

Loving you became a quiet crime

I committed every night

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Pre-Chorus (pull back → tension):

If I keep you

You suffer

So I disappear

And bleed

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🔥 CHORUS (TWO PARTS)

Chorus – Part I:

I hope you wake without the fear

That I couldn’t take away

If my absence buys your peace

Then I accept the pain

Chorus – Part II:

I’ll bury every dream we had

Where you’ll never hear it scream

If your future needs my silence

Then silence is what I’ll be

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Verse 2 (heavier, faster):

I swallowed words like broken glass

So you’d never hear them fall

I let you rewrite everything

While I lost it all

You don’t owe me your forever

You don’t owe me a goodbye

If letting go saves your heart

Then I’ll be the one who dies

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Chorus (repeat — heavier, layered):

Part I:

I hope you wake without the fear

That I couldn’t take away

Part II:

If your future needs my silence

Then silence is what I’ll be

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🔥 BUILD → BREAKDOWN (MID-SONG)

Build-Up (last vocals):

Go

Be whole

Don’t carry me

Anymore

I’ll remain

Here—

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Breakdown (INSTRUMENTAL ONLY):

(No vocals)

(Tight chugs

Heavy weight

Controlled devastation)

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🔥 FINAL CHORUS (EXTENDED — THREE PARTS)

Final Chorus – Part I (Acceptance):

I hope your life becomes the dream

I was never meant to be

If forgetting me brings you light

Then forget me completely

Final Chorus – Part II (Confession):

I loved you deeper than I showed

Deeper than I could survive

I gave you every piece of me

So you could stay alive

Final Chorus – Part III (Resolution):

If my pain is the price of your peace

Then I’ll pay it in full

I won’t follow you into happiness

I’ll stay behind the pull

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⚠️ FINAL BUILD → BREAKDOWN (ENDING)

Final Build-Up (last vocals ever):

Live

For you

Don’t look back

At me

I’ll be fine—

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FINAL BREAKDOWN (INSTRUMENTAL ONLY — HEAVY & EMOTIONAL):

(Slow, crushing opening hits

Then fast, relentless chugging

Wide, emotional guitar tone

Double-kicks driving forward

Let the riff repeat

Let it collapse)

(End on a massive final chord or fading distortion)