Walk Away, Stay Gone

[Verse 1]
Used to bleed for every silence
Bent my spine to fit your frame
Kept my pulse inside your pocket
Called that love
And wore the chain
Now your shadow spills across me
Like a stain I used to claim
But these feet remember doorways
More than they remember pain
[Chorus]
This is where I walk away
Stay gone
Slow steps
But my will’s like stone
You can call
But it rings out cold
I’m not yours to hold
You can wear your sorry thin
I won’t fold back in
I walk away
And I stay gone
[Verse 2]
You still talk like I’m your echo
Like my “no” is just a phase
You keep fishing in old phone calls
For a softer turn of phrase
But I’ve counted every gaslit sunrise
Every night you blurred the line
Now my name sounds different spoken
In a mouth that’s only mine
[Pre-Chorus]
You reach out
Same script
Same sound
I breathe in
And set it down
[Chorus]
This is where I walk away
Stay gone
Slow steps
But my will’s like stone
You can call
But it rings out cold
I’m not yours to hold
You can wear your sorry thin
I won’t fold back in
I walk away
And I stay gone
[Breakdown 1]
(Line in the sand, I drew it in vein)
You crossed it laughing
(neck-deep in doubt, I carried your blame)
But I’m done collapsing
You want my hurt as proof you exist?
Bite your tongue on that venomous wish
I’m not the bruise you press to feel alive (hey!)
Not the mirror for your fragile pride
I’m the hand that opens up the door
Steps through
Doesn’t look back anymore
[Chorus]
This is where I walk away
Stay gone
Slow steps
But my will’s like stone
You can call
But it rings out cold
I’m not yours to hold
You can wear your sorry thin
I won’t fold back in
I walk away
And I stay gone
[Breakdown 2]
[Drums drop to half-time
Violin screams above the riff]
I don’t hate you
I just choose me (choose me)
I don’t curse you
You’re just not free
To cross my skin like sacred ground
To twist my truth and talk me down
No more pleading in your storm
No more shrinking to your form
I turn my back
The sky turns wide
Your voice
Falls off the mountainside
[Outro]
Step by step
Your shape dissolves
I don’t turn
To watch you fall
My heart beats once
Then twice
Alone
I walk away
And I stay gone

metal, Modern metalcore with female vocals; drop-tuned chugs and half-time stomps under soaring minor-key violin lines. Verses stay tense and sparse, bass growling under palm-mutes, drums stalking. Choruses open wide with layered harmonies and a high, cutting lead violin counter-melody. Two breakdowns: first mid-song with syncopated kicks and shouted gang vocals; final outro breakdown slows and detunes, violin screaming in dissonant harmonies over a crushing wall of guitars., violin, female vocals