Never My Weight - Grant Abbott

This song is for anyone who ever carried blame that was never theirs to begin with.

It speaks to the ones who were treated as the problem for simply asking questions, for being different, for seeing through a story that did not quite add up, and for refusing to fold when pressure came from every direction.

Where communication ends, conflict begins.

Family, friends, leaders, strangers, all looking for somewhere to place their fear, and sometimes, to avoid facing their own faults.

“It was never my weight, it was never my chain.
The fire they lit was born from their pain.”

The image and the reference to fire are symbolic, not literal.
I do not condone violence or destruction, and I have no desire for that imagery to be taken that way.

Like the phoenix rising from the ashes, it represents transformation and truth coming forward.

The “fire” represents what happens when communication breaks down, questions go unanswered, and narratives get controlled.

That’s when tension, hostility, and blame erupt, not because of the community as a whole, but because silence and the unsaid create space for fear to grow.

The lyrics move through that strange loneliness of being cast as the villain when all you wanted was honesty, safety, and a little bit of sanity.

It is about the quiet burn of being misunderstood, the weight of whispers, the sting of being shut out instead of heard.

But this is not a song about staying in the fire.

It is about the moment you realize the weights around your ankles and the chains around your wrists were never forged from your own truth, and the moment you choose to step forward anyway, to stop carrying other people’s shame, fear, and projection as if it were your destiny.

Instead of getting pulled into wreckage, chaos, or whatever story others try to write, we need to keep moving toward what is true inside.

Integrity, clarity, and inner conviction are the real chain-snappers.

The world around us can burn, collapse, accuse, or rewrite the narrative a hundred different ways, but the only path that holds is the one built on truth, resilience, and the courage to stand as who we are, not who others think us to be.

This song is for anyone who has ever felt exiled for their convictions, punished for their conscience, or blamed for simply standing still while the crowd moved the other way.

It is not about revenge. It is about release.

A song about breaking free from what was never your weight.