Back to zero / So you wanna blow us all to pieces / Go meet your maker, head hung down / And give him all your explanations / Go ahead, throw down / Back to zero, back to nothing / Straight to meltdown, back to zero / That’s where we’re heading

It’s a monkey living on my back / I can feel my spine begin to crack / I’m looking to the future / I keep on glancing back / I prefer to rot / I don’t want to pop

I think I’ll head back to the jungle, alright / Don’t want to see no big bad rumble, too fright / Back to zero, that’s where we’re going / Back to nothing, right now, right now / No heroes? No more heroes / Back to meltdown / That’s where I’m going, back to zero

My whole life is hanging on a thread / I’m the fly inside the spider’s web / I’m looking to the future / I keep on glancing back / I prefer to rot / I don’t want to pop

I worry about my great grandchildren / Living ten miles beneath the ground / I worry about their whole existence / The whole damn thing’s in doubt

Back to zero, that’s where we’re going / Back to nothing, that’s where we’re heading / Straight to meltdown, that’s where we’re going / Back to zero, right now…

[By Mick Jagger – Keith Richards – Chuck Leavell © Rolling Stones Records – Columbia / Universal Music Group, 1986]