When things cannot get worse, when you’ve fallen as far as there is to go, then you are saved from further decline by that limit. You are “saved by zero”.
Cy Curnin, songwriter of The Fixx, says that this is the point of the song. That “rock bottom” protects you from things getting even worse.
[Verse 1]
Maybe someday
Saved by zero
I'll be more together
Stretched by fewer
Thoughts that leave me
Chasing after
My dreams disown me
Loaded with danger
[Chorus]
So, maybe I'll win (saved by zero)
Maybe I'll win (saved by zero)
[Verse 2]
Holding on to
Words that teach me
I will conquer
Space around me
[Chorus]
So, maybe I'll win (saved by zero)
Maybe I'll win (saved by zero)
Maybe I'll win (saved by zero)
Maybe I'll win (saved by zero)
[Bridge]
Saved by zero...
Saved by zero...
[Chorus]
So, maybe I'll win (saved by zero)
Maybe I'll win (saved by zero)
Maybe I'll win (saved by zero)
Who needs to win (saved by zero)
[Outro]
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Saved by Zero was written by Cy Curnin & Adam Woods & Jamie West-Oram & Rupert Greenall.
Saved by Zero was produced by Rupert Hine.