This song is about a young gentleman, Skull Guy, who gets chosen by an entity named zero_one to “be something greater” and live up to his full potential.
[Intro: Yoav Landau]
(Mama told me this is the way we talk)
(Mama told me this is the way we talk)
(Don’t get into trouble)
[Chorus: Yoav Landau]
Listen while I’m speaking
Behind the amplifier peaking
And when the soundwaves start their linking
Then you will know what I am thinking
If you can learn to read the code
All you’ll find is software you can install
But if you listen to the rhythm
You can remake the mental system
Why won’t you learn?
[Verse 1: Sam Haft]
Lost the plot and so I play it again
Needing a friend, needing an end, a creed to defend
Proceed another level to battle a devil
Combatting several enemies with the anatomy of a rebel
A fundamental drive to survive and to rise up
But an accidental crack as I slack off and dry up
If purpose defines you, completes and designs you
A lack of purpose starts to confine you, he'll find you
[Chorus: Yoav Landau]
Listen while I’m speaking
Behind the amplifier peaking
And when the soundwaves start their linking
Then you will know what I am thinking
If you can learn to read the code
All you’ll find is software you can install
But if you listen to the rhythm
You can remake the mental system
Why won’t you learn?
[Verse 2: Sam Haft]
Stuck in a prison that exists in the mind
Existence defined by power to persist undermined
Resisting the grind, I lie awake, fighting the day's end
'Cause every tomorrow's more of the same as the days blend
I find myself searching for something primeval
Cerebral upheaval, it’s time for the sequel
Now, I don’t know if I’m going out of my head
But I feel something ahead like a presence long dead
Summoning something or someone come from another time
Closer with every rhyme, could it be mine?
A mask with a task to attach a match that’s been calling out
Evolving as I feel it installing now
Rewriting my controls as I stare through the eye-holes
I put it on and take on a new role
A code for another mode overloading from the node
Augmented, my potential explodes
[Bridge: Yoav Landau]
I’m lost in the empty space, I wanna wake up
No sign in the darkness
Asleep inside a dream, silently scream, time flies
I've lived for a thousand lives
I'm ready to wake up, ready to take a step
New beginning as the border is thinning
Between the machine and man
It has begun, and it starts with zero_one
[Interlude: Sam Haft & Yoav Landau]
Deliver a sliver of what I thought I was
Is it true?
Forever and ever are in my heart, my blood
Coursing through
There’s something inside me that reached a world above
A higher view
Assimilate into it and become something new
[Refrain: Sam Haft]
I've lived for a thousand lives
I'm ready to wake up
No sign below the surface
A brain set to remain in a binary code
Refrain goes—
[Verse 3: Sam Haft]
Boom!
With a flash in the night, I see a bright orange light
I'm feeling ready to fight, I am prepared to ignite
A mask that will overwrite my purpose
Doom from a place out of time and space
My memories have been replaced
Every step forward is a step retraced
No time to waste, gotta run the race
Embrace the pace like a chase, got me working non-stop
Now listen to the beat drop
[Breakdown: Sam Haft, Yoav Landau, Sam Haft & Yoav Landau]
(Let me out)
It has begun, zeros and ones
A code that shows a new way to run
I start to glow, goodbye to the old
The mask is me as two become one
(Let me out)
I'm ready to roll, I'm feelin' the flow
Got a brand new band, got a hell of a show
Got one command, let the voice in your head
That tells you, "You're not good enough, go"
(Let me out)
You can be somebody new (Somebody new)
Call out to me, I want to hear you say it
(Let me out)
Will you let me out?
[Outro: Yoav Landau]
Listen while I’m speaking
Behind the amplifier peaking
And when the soundwaves start their linking
Then you will know what I am thinking
If you can learn to read the code
All you’ll find is software you can install
But if you listen to the rhythm
You can remake the mental system
Why won’t you learn?
Zero_one was written by The Living Tombstone.
Zero_one was produced by The Living Tombstone.
The Living Tombstone released Zero_one on Fri Sep 04 2020.