1x1 ft. Nova Twins #
“Annihilation never looked so good!”
“1x1” is the seventh song on the album POST HUMAN: Survival Horror.
Official Material #
Lyrics
disconnected from the world again./ no, the sun don’t shine in the place i’ve been./ so why you keep acting like i don’t exist?/ yeah, i feel like i’m ready to die but i can’t commit./
so i ask myself,/ when will i learn?/ i’d set myself on fire to feel the burn./ i’m scared that i’m never going to be repaired./
put me out of my misery,/ my mind feels like an archenemy/ can’t look me in the eyes/ i don’t know what hurts the most/ holding on or letting go/ reliving my memories/ and they’re killing me one by one./
sabotaged myself again/ got a brain like a hurricane/ me and that bitch no we can’t be friends/ and i don’t even care no./ got me sinking to a dark place/ outta love/ evil twin under the staircase/ oh my god/ think i’m looking at a long night/ i’m alone/ but i’m numb/ annihilation never looked so good./ shut up!/ hush your mouth you talk too much./
put me out of my misery,/ my mind feels like an archenemy/ can’t look me in the eyes/ i don’t know what hurts the most/ holding on or letting go/ reliving my memories/ and they’re killing me one by one./
and i’m staring into the void again/ no one knows what a mess i’m in/ the voices in my head say i’m just being paranoid/ but it’s bad for my health/ how much i hate myself/ i suffocate,/ the weight,/ it pulls me underneath.
(Source: 1x1 lyric video description)
Interviews #
‘1X1’, meanwhile, features British nu-metal revivalists Nova Twins, one of Sykes’ favourite new bands, who soundtracked many of his lockdown hours. Here the frontman laments that he’s been “reliving my memories – and they’re killing me one by one”. The song, he says, addresses “the guilt that we as a society carry for what we’ve done to other species and ethnicities and other genders”, but also the struggle to escape his own history.