Song Wedgie

Song: Zero
Artist: Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Album: It’s Blitz!
Release: 2009

The cover of the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s third LP It’s Blitz! features a striking high-speed camera-captured image of Karen O’s hand smashing a raw egg, sending its innards flying out in the shape of a Y. Karen O’s ‘Zero’ is an offer to us: to purposefully make ourselves blank slates—to assert agency in the interest of anonymity—while at the same time wholly giving ourselves over to the social. In other words, no one’s gonna ask our names, but we’d still better find out where they want us to go. [marathonpacks]

Lyrics:
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 Your zero What’s your name? No one’s going to 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 Your zero What’s your name? No one’s going to 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? Your zero What’s your name? No one’s going to 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?