The Zone Lyrics

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Cover art for The Zone lyrics by Weeknd, The

like a sort of "sleeping with ghosts"; Frank Ocean's novacane or hammock's departure songs. A lucid venture into past lovers through the pursuit of sensual pleasures. Love how that steady bass line carries the song into a hypnotic rhythm similar to massive attack. It's the bass that makes it very sexy, but the lyrics, vocals and guitar that turns it into a haunting, fragile tune. The intimacy belies the sexuality of the song. He speaks with tenderness like he would with a lover, yet there is also that carnality and nihilistic promiscuity. Slipping into his own impulses, dreams, the past... the down beat vibe is like him falling further and further into himself, into whoever he's with... losing himself and slipping in and out of consciousness... he's running and falling, remembering..

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