Pierce The Veil – The Divine Zero lyrics

This song is about addictions. The intro mentioned drugs swimming through his lovers head, and many drag addicts experience a swimming or dizzy sensation when extremely high. "The downside" is another phrase for crashing, which is what happens when you come off a high. The alcohol version is called a hangover, but is essentially the same thing. People are known to be extremely depressed, violent, or even unresponsive when in this condition. "My god, here's comes the downside could either mean he feels it coming on himself or his lover is. He only prays then because it's possible to die of an extreme crash or make a stupid decision that will affect you forever, and he's scared. Kerosene is extremely flammable and probably symbolizes the buildup of "flammability" in his other relationships and cares before he "burns them down". By the end of the song he says "the kerosene is gone" so he symbolically burnt up his life for this girl. Desperate times and desperate measures means during a crash or depressive time in their lives they do desperate things to escape. They're counting the stars and scars, so there's definitely some self harm going on too. He thinks it's like a work of art though, or like tattoos on her. There's also references to suicide, like hide the bullets and your serotonins gone, which means someone overdosed because he was desperate to leave because of the conditionn he's in (with his girlfriend and drug abuse).