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Zero by Yeah Yeah Yeahs

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Zero

Release date: 2009

From It’s Blitz!
Track 1
4:26
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About This Track

'Zero' by Yeah Yeah Yeahs is an alternative track on 'It’s Blitz!' released in 2009. The lyrics run like a high-voltage pep talk, urging motion and self-invention, with a taunting dismissal in the refrain, "You're a zero". A frantic, street-level urgency shows up in the images of searching and being kept on the move, while the repeated calls to gear up and go suggest a chase of belonging or usefulness, not rest. The voice is confrontational and restless, as if refusing to let anyone linger in uncertainty.

"Zero" is a single by Yeah Yeah Yeahs, from the album It’s Blitz!, released 2009. The track is 4:26 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 13 articles about Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

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Lyrics

Zero

Shake it like a ladder to the sun
Makes me feel like a madman on the run
Find me, never, never far gone
So get your leather, leather, leather on, on, on, on

You're a zero
What's your name? No one's gonna ask you
Better find out where they want you to go
Try and hit the spot, get to know it in the dark
Get to know it whether you're crying, crying, crying, oh, oh
Can you climb, climb, climb higher?

Shake it like a ladder to the sun
Makes me feel like a madman on the run
No you're never, never far gone
So get your leather, leather, leather on, on, on, on

You're a zero
What's your name? No one's gonna ask you
Better find out where they want you to go
Try and hit the spot, get to know it in the dark
Get to know it whether you're crying, crying, crying, oh, oh
Can you climb, climb, climb higher?

Was it the cure? Shellshock
Was it the cure? Hope not
Was it the cure? Shellshock
Was it the cure? What's your name?

You're a zero
What's your name? No one's gonna ask you
Better find out where they want you to go
Try and hit the spot, get to know it in the dark
Get to know it whether you're crying, crying, crying, oh, oh
Can you climb, climb, climb higher?

Was it the cure? Shellshock
Was it the cure? Hope not
Was it the cure? Shellshock
Was it the cure? Hope not

What's your name? What's your name?
What's your name? What's your name?
What's your name? What's your name?
What's your name?

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Track details

From It’s Blitz!

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It’s Blitz!
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
8th March 2009
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  1. 1Zero
    4:26
  2. 2Heads Will Roll
    3:41
  3. 3Soft Shock
    3:53
  4. 4Skeletons
    5:02
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