The Zone

Ayo, I step in the zone and the zone builds a home of its own, my phone's on a silent vibration, I'm aching alone to comfortably taking the throne. And not a soul in this dome but the drone of the beat and the metronome, I'm a ghost in the shell, I excel when I'm left in my basement alone. Ya playin' a zone on me? Cool, I'm exploiting the gap, just a middle-aged guy in a cap dissecting the rap. Hot hand from my high, the net doesn't ripple or moan, on my shotgun wedding, I'm sweating right into the bone. It's a - Heat check! - Every take getting thrown 'til the cylinder is blown. I don't phone it in? I'm dialed in, tuned in, locked in, sunk under the skin, but the beat is my ink and I'm letting the tip of the consciousness in. Your pocket has holes and your change keeps on falling away, my pocket is stitched so tight that the beat couldn't change it. Okay? - Time doesn't tick in this room, I'm just watching the machinery spin. - Time doesn't tick in this room, I'm just watching 'em give in. "And-one!" The timer goes off , ain't a bluff, I'll be checking every second again and again. 'Cause the zone ain't a place that you get to. It's a place that gets in. THE ZONE... Is locked. THE ZONE... tick tock THE ZONE... No soul. THE ZONE... I'm gone. I'm locked in. Man, Just locked. Not tuned in, not all in. Just locked. And this clock on the wall has no hands, but I'm hearing the tick and the tock. There's a knock on the door - it's my wife - but I don't even pivot or talk. Then she stops. And that's the part. Not the knock. The block where the knockin' was. I'm reading the signpost ahead, another dimension of sound, submitted for your approval, a man who is drowning on ground. I'm the guy in the vault with the books when his spectacles shatter and break, I begged for the time to be lone in this shower. I got every hour I asked for. Now I'm awake. I should sleep, counting sheep, But the fortress I built with the hours turned out to be the lock, so Call it Stock-holm, I'm in love with this cage and the cage i call home! Yes, it's home, same throne, same dome, I'm the same ghost with a grin, on the phone with no one. Cause I bragged, I didn't need nobody, now I'm nobody's I'm alone, and the drone of the beat is the only tone I'll have ever known. (I'm gone.) I said it was known, and once I'm on it I'm gone. Yeah....I'm gone. THE ZONE... Is locked. THE ZONE... tick tock THE ZONE... No soul. THE ZONE... You're gone. Your problem's you can't get in. Mine's I can't get out. Different loan. You borrowed the zone for an hour. I signed for zero power. The zone owns my home. I'm sour... - Time doesn't tick in this room. I used to say that grinnin'. - Time doesn't tick in this room. Nobody told me that ain't winning.... "And-two!" The timer starts new , just a few - more moments I'll be checking again and I'm done 'Cause the zone ain't a place i leave with no ties. It's a place where the good in me dies... and I'm gone. THE ZONE... Is locked. THE ZONE... tick tock THE ZONE... No soul. THE ZONE... Hold on?