# **“Never Was a Father” — Lyric Seed (Emotional Heavy Rock)** ## **Verse 1** You were just a shadow in a doorway, A name I learned but never knew. Chasing every poison you could hold onto, While the world kept telling me I should look like you. Your silence was a sentence, Your absence was a choice. I reached for something human, But you never found your voice. ## **Chorus** And nothing you gave me Was ever love, was ever real. You were a ghost in a body Who never learned how to feel. I was denied, pushed aside, By your blood and by your clan— But I grew stronger in the places Where you never chose to stand. ## **Verse 2** They said you were a donor, But you never were a dad. You traded every moment For the next high you could have. A dry‑drunk heart, a hollow man, Running from the wreck you made— And I was just a truth You couldn’t face. Your family closed their doors to me, Pretending I was never there. But I learned that love is chosen, Not inherited or shared. ## **Chorus** And nothing you gave me Was ever love, was ever real. You were a ghost in a body Who never learned how to feel. I was denied, pushed aside, By your blood and by your clan— But I grew stronger in the places Where you never chose to stand. ## **Bridge** I’m not the broken one— I’m the one who walked away. You’re the echo of a story That I don’t need to replay. Your absence carved a doorway To the life I built instead— And I found family in the people Who showed up when you fled. ## **Final Chorus** ’Cause nothing you gave me Was ever love, was ever real. But I learned to rise without you, Learned a different way to heal. You denied me, left me empty, But I still became my own man— And I’m stronger in the places Where you never chose to stand.
