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The Only

Release date: 2nd September 2003

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About This Track

'The Only' is the lead single from Static-X's third album, Shadow Zone. The track pairs industrial metal with a more melodic approach than the band's earlier work, built on a foundation of confrontational vocals and driving rhythm. The song's central tension sits between assertion and exhaustion: the narrator claims dominance ("I'm winning, you're losing") whilst simultaneously admitting fatigue, collapsing into the refrain "the only thing I understand is what I feel". It's a song about stripped-down emotional honesty beneath layers of aggression. Lyrically, the track trades in binary opposition and psychological warfare. Heaven and hell, fantasy and reality, the hypocrite and the fanatic all circle one another in a landscape of fractured identity. The repetition of "you're trying to take me, you're trying to make me" suggests a struggle for autonomy against forces that would reshape or consume the self. What emerges is not victory but clarity: a recognition that feeling, not logic or ideology, is the only reliable ground.

"The Only" is a single by Static-X, released 2nd September 2003. Full lyrics are available below.

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Static-X

Static-X

Lyrics

The Only

I'm winning, you're losing
I'm falling, your agony
Lower than lower before
Your forgotten memory
My heaven, your hell
I'm killing your fantasy
More and more you follow
Your divorced reality

You're trying to take me
You're trying to make me
This is the only
Give me the only thing
Tired of trying
I'm tired of lying
The only thing I understand is what I feel

Identity, fantasy, heresy, killing me
Lower than lower before
This thing to feed
Hypocrite, lunatic, fanatic, heretic
More and more you follow
Your divorced reality

You're trying to take me
You're trying to make me
This is the only
Give me the only thing
Tired of trying
I'm tired of lying
The only thing I understand is what I feel

Hypocrite, lunatic, fanatic, heretic
Hypocrite, lunatic, fanatic, heretic
Hypocrite, lunatic, fanatic, heretic
Hypocrite, lunatic, fanatic, heretic

You're trying to take me
You're trying to make me
This is the only
Give me the only thing
Tired of trying
I'm tired of lying
The only thing I understand is what I feel
You're trying to take me
You're trying to make me
This is the only
Give me the only thing
Tired of trying
I'm tired of lying
The only thing I understand is what I feel

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The Only

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    Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    Ken Jay, Tripp Eisen, Wayne Static
    Producer
    Josh Abraham
    Engineer
    Ryan Williams (Engineer)
    Drums
    Josh Freese
    Guitar
    Tripp Eisen
    Keyboards
    Wayne Static
    Vocals
    Wayne Static
    Additional Keyboards
    Ken Jay
    Background Vocals
    Tony Campos
    Bass Guitar
    Tony Campos
    Mixing Engineer
    Ulrich Wild
    Programmer
    Wayne Static
    Video Director
    P.R. Brown
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