I WANT YOU HAPPY by AbandonAllVows - Zona

I WANT YOU HAPPY by AbandonAllVows - Zona

Lyrics

Intro (soft, distant, sung):

I practiced this moment

But I still choke on your name

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Verse 1 (harsh, controlled):

I kept my composure for so long

I forgot how to breathe

Every word I never said

Still lives inside of me

I watched you drift farther

While I stayed quiet and proud

I thought silence was kindness

Now it’s screaming so loud

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Pre-Chorus (pull back → tension):

I don’t hate you

I hate that I still care

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🔥 CHORUS (EMOTIONAL, HIGH SINGING — HELD NOTES)

(clean/high vocal, strained, breaking)

I still want you haaaaappy

Even if it’s not with me

I’ll hold this pain inside my chest

So you can finally breathe

I still want you haaaaappy

Even if it kills my heart

I won’t beg you to come back

I’ll just fall apart

(let the last word stretch and crack)

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⚠️ BREAKDOWN I — EMOTION COLLAPSES

(Slow crushing chugs

Massive drum hits

Pain turning violent)

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Verse 2 (harsh, angrier):

I replay every ending

Where I said something real

But courage came too late

And now this is the deal

You found peace in letting go

I found scars in staying still

I would’ve burned the world for you

But I never fucking will

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Pre-Chorus (half-sung, restrained):

I hope you never hear this

Because it would break you too

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🔥 CHORUS (REPEAT — BIGGER, MORE PAIN)

(high singing, layered, almost crying)

I still want you haaaaappy

Even if I’m erased

If your smile costs me everything

Then I’ll pay it anyway

I still want you haaaaappy

Even when I’m alone

I’ll scream this into empty rooms

And act like I’ve moved on

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⚠️ BREAKDOWN II — FAST, BRUTAL SNAP

(Fast chugging

Relentless double-kicks

Rage underneath grief)

(No melody

Just impact)

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🔥 FINAL CHORUS (LAST — EXTENDED, MOST EMOTIONAL)

(clean vocal pushed to the limit, held notes, cracking tone)

I still want you haaaaappy

Even now… even still…

If loving you means losing you

Then I guess I always will

I still want you haaaaappy

Even when it destroys me

I won’t chain you to my sadness

Just remember me softly

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⚠️ FINAL BUILD → BREAKDOWN III (ENDING)

Final Build-Up (sung, barely audible):

Please don’t hear this

Please don’t—

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FINAL BREAKDOWN (INSTRUMENTAL ONLY):

(Slow devastating hits

Then violent stop-start chugs

Emotion completely collapses)