[Intro] [Heartbeat thumping slow, degraded chime, cold pad, wind] [Pitched down whisper] Still beating Still laughing Talk [Verse 1] [Pitched down formant rap, low, half time 808, grief underneath] Heart in my hand and it's slowing on the beat Vask on the glass floor with the city at his feet Laughing through the blood like he paid for the show Says sit down, soldier, there's a thing you ought to know Remember the harbor job, remember the fire in your sight Who you think paid the surgeon when you woke up with the light Every gift got a string and every string got a hand And the hand was always mine, he says, you just didn't understand [Hook] [Filtered gang chant, softer, sparse cowbell and thin 808] Zero, zero Where it begins Zero, zero Under the skin Zero, zero Nobody wins [Verse 2] [Dying raspy older male voice, slow, breath failing] Every fix it ever gave you was a distance from this seat Every mile you ever ran was a measure from my feet Coordinates don't mean a thing unless you know where zero sits Zero is this penthouse and it always was, and still it is It told me when you left the ward, it told me every stair I let you cut the Coil for me, the names I couldn't bear (Zero) I'm dying with my heart in your hand and I still win the bet Cause you're still wearing me, soldier, and you ain't took me out yet [Hook] [Filtered gang chant, softer, sparse cowbell and thin 808] Zero, zero Where it begins Zero, zero Under the skin Zero, zero Nobody wins [Bridge] [Heartbeat stops, all drums out, first ice pluck note, cold pad alone] [Pitched down whisper, breath audible] It was you It was always you There you were [Verse 3] [Slow rap, low and cold, drums returning thin, stop and start with tape halts] Every voice that ever walked me, every door and every stair Every there you are I loved was a line back to his chair You'd have known this road, I told you, and you did, and so did he Only thing that ever stayed with me was selling me for free Red eye flickering like it's trying to explain Nothing it could say that I would trust again Take the blade from Vask's own table and I hold it to my sight Want to find the origin, I'll carve it out tonight [Final Hook] [Restrained drop, thin 808, filtered chant, cold pad rising] Zero, zero Where it begins Zero, zero Under the skin Zero, zero Carve it from within [Outro] [No drums, cold pad, sparse ice pluck, degraded chime stuttering, blade scrape] [Pitched down whisper] Zero Zero
