Lyrically, it closes the book on a topic I’ve been singing about for the last three records. It’s about a relationship that kept going and had a lot of ups and downs. We were both able to stop thinking about it and have a mutual respect for each other’s lives. “The title comes from a movie called The Grand Budapest Hotel. The character’s name is Zero, and in the movie some- body goes, ‘Oh, the Divine Zero!’ I loved that line. It’s about an insecure feeling I’ve had throughout all of our music career, always feeling like me or our band are still always trying to prove to ourselves that we have something to offer. Sometimes, I’ll feel like I’m not good enough for this or certain people. Inside, I feel like I have so much to offer, and I’ve always felt that way. It’s for a person who doesn’t have the confidence but knows they can change the world inside and out. They’re waiting for their chance to breakout. “That song was the one standout track on the record. We love having at least one song like this, where it’s almost an experiment musically. It’s about the public tormenting my girlfriend. We’ve been dealing with a lot of people straight up harassing her and threatening her. There were times when she’d call me crying because people were saying all of these horrible things about her and mak- ing fucked up Instagram photos and Photoshopping all of this crazy shit about her. She didn’t know why these people were attacking her so brutally. It really pissed me off that people were acting like that towards her. I sort of wrote it telling her that if it was just her and I on a different planet, I would be happy with that. Or, if we threw away our phones and went and lived in the woods together, we would be fine.
I was trying to relay that to her in a song. There’s a line that says, ‘We can fake our own deaths here’ and disappear.” “That was the culmination of the pressure and stress that people were putting on me to make this record. I usually don’t write songs about making records, but I had so much going on throughout the last two years of doing this that it just felt right. I wanted to be left alone to make these songs. I always considered making an album as similar to creating a painting or writing a poem. There should never be anybody telling you what to do. That song is just me speak- ing about the process of what I was going through.
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