Track By Tracks: Mean To You - Zero (2025)

Prologue:

The prologue sets the stage with a slow, haunting version of the melody later heard in “Expelled.”

It feels like a quiet breath before the storm, a moment suspended between hope and despair.

1. Expelled:

The first track confronts what it feels like to be pushed out, not just as an individual, but as someone rejected for their race, identity, or beliefs.

The song channels the anger and exhaustion caused by political hypocrisy, discrimination, and exclusion.

With its intensity and emotional force, “Expelled” transforms this collective pain into a defiant call for dignity, justice, and self-rebirth.

2. Burden:

“Burden” is a heartfelt track about carrying the weight of life’s struggles while refusing to collapse under it.

The song dives into the feeling of being pulled down by fear, doubt, and exhaustion, yet choosing resilience over surrender.

Through emotional lyrics and a steady rise in intensity, "Burden" becomes a reminder that even in darkness, strength can lead the way back to the light.

3. No Boundaries:

“No Boundaries” is a song about personal freedom, breaking away from the fears, expectations, and limits imposed by others.

The song blends emotional intensity with driving energy, reflecting the moment someone decides to reclaim their voice and choose their own path.

It’s a declaration of courage and the belief that no one should live confined, because true identity has no boundaries.

4. Lies:

“Lies”, a song about resilience against deception, corruption, and false appearances.

The song contrasts those who hide behind masks of deceit with those who fight their battles with integrity and unshakable resolve.

With its repeating lines and rising emotional intensity, "Lies" captures the triumph of truth over manipulation, a reminder that real power lies not in pretending but in standing firm, honest, and unafraid.

5. The Rights to feel Free:

“The Rights to Feel Free” is an anthem about our universal longing for liberation, emotional, and spiritual. The song paints freedom as a birthright carried by every soul.

The track is a reminder that freedom isn’t just a political idea, it’s something deeply personal, something we all carry within us, and something we must stand together to protect.

6. Different, yet alike:

“Different, yet alike” is a heartfelt tribute to the beauty of opposites coming together. The most personal song of the album.

The song explores how two contrasting souls, a dreamer and a realist, a wildfire and a steady flame, balance, complete, and elevate one another.

It’s the celebration of my own love that thrives not despite differences, but because of them.

7. Backyard:

“Backyard” is a reflective, introspective song about growth, wisdom, and the quiet strength that comes from life’s experiences.

The track highlights the value of lessons learned over time, portraying them not as burdens but as treasures that guide us toward clarity and purpose.

8. Zero:

“Zero”, the title track, is a cinematic, philosophical piece that explores the beauty of beginnings and the importance of the number 0.

Through poetic imagery, “Zero” portrays this silent starting point as both nothing and everything.

A meditative, soaring tribute to rebirth, possibility, and the courage to start from the absolute beginning.

9. Chained:

“Chained” is a dark, intense-based song about oppression, inner turmoil, and the desperate fight for freedom.

The song dives into the feeling of being trapped by systems, by fear, by pride, by the weight of injustice, and the painful struggle to break those chains before they break you.

Set in the same dystopian world as its video clip, “Chained” follows a lone warrior confronting both external enemies and the demons within.

Alarms, battles, paranoia, and rising tension echo through the lyrics as the protagonist fights corrupt powers, manipulative forces, and the mechanical control of a dictatorship closing in.