This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
I got no answer, I got no love
So my heart pumps icicles
No answer, I got no love
So my heart beats zero below
No answer, I got no love
So my heart pumps icicles
No answer, I got no love
So my heart beats zero below
Ayo, tell me why should I ever give a fuck
My time is money man and you ain't even worth a buck
Don't excuse the tone, this is how it is
Formin a cold blooded, and I don't give a shit
Got an announcement, the golden child comin
Straight killin em, boss bitch stuntin
These hoes crippled, not even in the runnin
Put out the feta so you know I ain't frontin
They had a little time, tried to be E V E
Snatchin the plate back, it's my turn to eat
And I'm a greedy bitch, man I don't like to share
Whole world mine, yea yea it ain't fair
They said I turned cold once I made my millions
I know you're mad, my success really hurt your feelings
No sugar coatin anything around here
Lioness, run team, who should rock here?
[Chorus]
I got no answer, I got no love
So my heart pumps icicles
No answer, I got no love
So my heart beats zero below
'Cause I'm a cold motherfucker, I'm a cold...
She a cold motherfucker, I'm a cold m...
'Cause I'm a cold motherfucker, I'm a cold...
I'm a cold motherfucker, I'm a cold...
I got no answer, I got no love
So my heart pumps icicles
No answer, I got no love
So my heart beats zero below
Isabelle Marant, bottles blood stained
From all these wannabees that thought they was better than me
Got em thirsty for it, give this bitch a drink
Iceberg dead ahead, I make Titanic sink
I'm just what they not, they must really all you got
You could never take my spot
Trust me, you don't wanna pop
Yea, I shoot, when shockin all reason that yo mouth drop
Fuck you 'cause you're at the bottom, love me 'cause I'm on top
I'm a fashionista, cannibal – I eat ya
History I teach ya anywhere I meat ya
Still tryna get a gig, baby I'm the feature
If you wanna wear my crown dig a little deeper
Hah, you ain't even in my league
Murder murder, I'mma kill em on this beat
Got em shook now, getting dirty lips now
Still you shine, guess I'mma cook now
[Chorus]
No answer, I got no love
So my heart pumps icicles
No answer, I got no love
So my heart beats zero below
So my heart pumps icicles
No answer, I got no love
So my heart beats zero below
No answer, I got no love
So my heart pumps icicles
No answer, I got no love
So my heart beats zero below
Ayo, tell me why should I ever give a fuck
My time is money man and you ain't even worth a buck
Don't excuse the tone, this is how it is
Formin a cold blooded, and I don't give a shit
Got an announcement, the golden child comin
Straight killin em, boss bitch stuntin
These hoes crippled, not even in the runnin
Put out the feta so you know I ain't frontin
They had a little time, tried to be E V E
Snatchin the plate back, it's my turn to eat
And I'm a greedy bitch, man I don't like to share
Whole world mine, yea yea it ain't fair
They said I turned cold once I made my millions
I know you're mad, my success really hurt your feelings
No sugar coatin anything around here
Lioness, run team, who should rock here?
[Chorus]
I got no answer, I got no love
So my heart pumps icicles
No answer, I got no love
So my heart beats zero below
'Cause I'm a cold motherfucker, I'm a cold...
She a cold motherfucker, I'm a cold m...
'Cause I'm a cold motherfucker, I'm a cold...
I'm a cold motherfucker, I'm a cold...
I got no answer, I got no love
So my heart pumps icicles
No answer, I got no love
So my heart beats zero below
Isabelle Marant, bottles blood stained
From all these wannabees that thought they was better than me
Got em thirsty for it, give this bitch a drink
Iceberg dead ahead, I make Titanic sink
I'm just what they not, they must really all you got
You could never take my spot
Trust me, you don't wanna pop
Yea, I shoot, when shockin all reason that yo mouth drop
Fuck you 'cause you're at the bottom, love me 'cause I'm on top
I'm a fashionista, cannibal – I eat ya
History I teach ya anywhere I meat ya
Still tryna get a gig, baby I'm the feature
If you wanna wear my crown dig a little deeper
Hah, you ain't even in my league
Murder murder, I'mma kill em on this beat
Got em shook now, getting dirty lips now
Still you shine, guess I'mma cook now
[Chorus]
No answer, I got no love
So my heart pumps icicles
No answer, I got no love
So my heart beats zero below
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Zero Below Lyrics as written by Sander J. C. Der Van Waal Eve Jeffers
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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