“1s + 0s” (pronounced Ones and Zeroes) is the sixth song from Poppy’s fifth studio album “Zig”. The song has a very heavy-industrial sound to it, and Poppy’s high vocals are remarkable specially during the post-choruses. Lyrically, 1s + 0s is about Poppy’s understanding of love and pointing out that...
[Verse 1]
Can't identify surplus or deficits
'Til we've crawled through mud and rolled down through the trenches
And we've met at the highest of the summits
'Til you've held my hand too tight as we plummet
[Chorus]
So many ones and zeroes, so many ones and zeroes
Is my name safe in your mouth?
So many ones and zeroes, so many ones and zeroes
Is my name safe in your mouth?
[Post-Chorus]
So many one, one, one, one, ones
So many ones, one, onе, one, ones
Don't call me thе one, one, one, one, one
'Less I'm the only one, one, one, one, one
[Verse 2]
Meet me in the only tense that is present
Hold my line of defense 'til I cement it
Will you follow me, intrinsic in motive
If it don't go the way that you suppose it?
[Chorus]
So many ones and zeroes, so many ones and zeroes
Is my name safe in your mouth?
So many ones and zeroes, so many ones and zeroes
Is my name safe in your mouth?
[Post-Chorus]
So many one, one, one, one, ones
So many ones, one, one, one, ones
Don't call me the one, one, one, one, one
'Less I'm the only one, one, one, one, one
1s + 0s was written by Poppy & Simon Wilcox & Ali Payami.
1s + 0s was produced by Ali Payami.
I feel my understanding of love is altered. A lot of Zig is me processing what that means to me. I would say “1s + 0s” is a song that was a conversation I had with myself. It was about love and people that I was trying to relate to in a relationship and how they thought that they were the ones that...