I Was Never There - The Weeknd

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[Verse 1]
             
What makes a g

              
rown man wanna

 
 cry?
(Cry, cry, cry, cry)
             
What makes him

              
 wanna take hi

  
s life?
(Yeah)
             
His happiness 

         
is never real
(Real, real, real, real)
             
And mindless s

             
ex is how he f

#
eels, ooh, he 

feels

[Chorus]
          
When it's time

, when it's ti

me, when it's 

time
         
It won't matte

r (it don't ma

tter)
         
It won't matte

r (matter)
          
When it's time

, when it's ti

me, when it's 

time (time, it

's time, babe)
         
It won't matte

r (it won't ma

tter, babe)
         
It won't matte

r (ya)
       
It was like I 

was never ther

e
(It was like I was never there)
             
It was like it

              
 was more than

           
 thin air, oh
          
When it's time

, when it's ti

me, when it's 

time, oh baby
             
It won't matte

            
r, it won't ma

tter, baby

[Post-Chorus]
          
When it's time

, when it's ti

me, when it's 

time
             
It won't matte

            
r, it won't ma

tter
          
When it's time

, when it's ti

me, when it's 

time
         
It won't matte

r, it won't ma

tter
       
It was like I 

was never ther

e
       
It was like it

 was more than

 thin air
          
When it's time

, when it's ti

me, when it's 

time
             
It won't matte

            
r, it won't ma

tter

[Interlude]
          
When it's time

, when it's ti

me, when it's 

time
             
It won't matte

            
r, it won't ma

tter
          
When it's time

, when it's ti

me, when it's 

time
             
It won't matte

            
r, it won't ma

tter

[Bridge]
              
Ooh, when no o

              
ne knows what 


love is
              
And I know it 

              
ain't you for 


sure
              
You'd rather s

         
omething toxic
              
So, I poison m

      
yself again, a

gain
 
'Til I feel no

thing
      
In my soul (in

 my soul)
           
I'm on the edg

e of something

 breaking
          
I feel my mind

 is slowly fad

in'
          
If I keep goin

g, I won't mak

e it
          
If I keep goin

g, I won't mak

e it

[Outro]
            
And it's all b

          
ecause of you
            
It's all becau

      
se of you
            
It's all becau

      
se of you
            
It's all becau

      
se of you

Woah, woah

Don't you, bab

y, hey
         
It won't matte

r, baby

Don't you know

?

Don't you know

?

Ooh, no

  
  
  
  

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