Growing up, there are stories we outgrow and stories that outgrow us. Running Out of Time sits in the second category—the kind of memory that keeps unfolding long after you’ve walked away from it. This EP is a three-view retelling of Siopao, the lost chapter in Z3RØ’s multiverse: the version where the boy didn’t make it, where summer ended not with closure but with a fall that splintered him into a hundred alternate selves.

I’ve always carried that original arc quietly. Before rockstar Z3RØ, before Ziro the Sad Star Soldier, before the other versions found new lives across timelines—there was just a fourteen-year-old boy, running hard toward something he couldn’t name, and losing everything before he knew how to hold it.

This EP retells that story from three angles. Not to rewrite it—just to finally give it a voice.

Why This EP Exists

I made this because stories evolve even if we don’t. Part Zero was the darkest version of Z3RØ’s canon—a fixed tragedy, a timeline where he actually died. But every version that followed was shaped by that moment: the fall that echoed into a rockstar, a soldier of sorrow, and a dozen selves who found new ways to live with the weight of their origin.

These three tracks don’t fix the past. They just honor the version of him who didn’t get to grow up. The one who ran out of time.