[Intro] [Cold white pad, rain on high glass, degraded chime slow, soft kick on one only] [Low whisper, breath audible] Sit down Hold still This is going to hurt [Verse 1] [Low intimate vocal, half spoken half sung, ice pluck enters] Vask gone cold on the glass and the city holding its breath Two hundred floors of quiet and a knife and what is left I sit down in his chair where the zero always was Blade across my knee and the rain doing what it does You were there in the harbor when they stitched you in my head You were there in the dark when I counted, when I bled Every there you are, every door and every stair Nobody ever stayed like you stayed, and you were never there [Hook] [Whispered, doubled, ice pluck carrying the old cowbell motif] Here, here Zero is here Here, here Nobody near [Verse 2] [Low intimate vocal, strained, small electric crackles] Tip of the blade at the rim of the steel First cut is easy, it's the second one I feel Wires in the socket like the roots of something grown Every one I sever makes a small electric moan Red goes weak, goes flicker, goes a dying kind of gray Pull the last cord and the whole thing comes away Hold it in my palm like I held the hearts tonight Fifth name on the list and the smallest one in sight [Hook] [Whispered, doubled, ice pluck carrying the old cowbell motif] Here, here Zero is here Here, here Nobody near [Bridge] [Everything drops out but the degraded chime, slowing] [Bitcrushed fragments, cold robotic, fading] Recording Recording contin Contin [Chime slows and stops, total stillness] [Verse 3] [Low intimate vocal, steadier, cold pad widening, soft kick returns on one] Old math says move the zero and the whole map shifts Take away where zero was and every coordinate lifts Zero ain't his penthouse, zero ain't the Coil Zero is where I'm standing, and I'm standing on my own One eye, one blade, and a number no one sees Every mile from here I count it out from me Leave it on his desk like a coin for the dead Step out in the rain with the zero in my head [Final Hook] [Whispered, single voice, ice pluck alone, no drop] Here, here Zero is here Here, here Only me here [Outro] [Cold pad, rain, ice pluck slowing, soft kick on one only] [Low whisper] Step one From here Still counting
