**Intro (Low drone, feedback, distant breathing)**
*(Let the notes ring. Let them rot.)*
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**Verse I**
I ground my teeth down to bone
Waiting for something to break
You never needed my love
Just the shape of someone who’d stay
I was meat in your mouth
A sound you made when you were bored
There was never a soul in your body
Just a hunger that learned how to talk
**Pre-Chorus (instruments pull back, vocals almost whispered)**
I called it love
Because I didn’t know what else to call the damage
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**Chorus (Full weight drops — slow, crushing)**
I don’t want to forget you
There is nothing to forget
You were empty from the start
I just stood too close to it
You used me
You broke me
And it meant absolutely nothing
I wasn’t ruined
I was consumed
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**Verse II**
You watched me dissolve in real time
And called it my fault
I learned pain sounds holy
When it’s spoken soft
I amputated my needs
Just to keep you near
Now all that’s left is pressure
And the absence of fear
**Pre-Chorus**
There is no aftermath
This is all it ever was
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**Chorus (Heavier, vocals layered, almost shouted)**
I don’t want to forget you
You were never inside me
You were just the force
That proved I was disposable
You used me
You broke me
Left no mark worth keeping
This isn’t heartbreak
This is erosion
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**Breakdown (VERY SLOW — palm-muted, sub drops)**
*(Vocals low, almost spoken)*
Say my name
It won’t open anything
Say you cared
It won’t give me shape
There is no missing
There is no guilt
Just a body that trusted
And learned how to split
*(Pause — then slam back in)*
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**Break (Atmospheric Void)**
No god
No meaning
No closure
No end
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**Final Chorus (Last, heaviest — dragged out, oppressive)**
I don’t want to forget you
Because you were never real
You were just a vacancy
I bled into
You broke me open
And found nothing inside
No hope
No devotion
Nothing survived
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**Outro (Single low note, fading feedback)**
There was never love here
Only pressure
Only loss
Only silence
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