“Siopao (Running Out of Time Cover)” reimagines the story through the eyes of the girl behind the counter — the one the boy crashed into, fell for, and eventually lost. In the original Siopao: Part Zero, she never gets her own voice; her feelings live between the lines, half-hidden in memory. This version finally gives her that space.
KYU.BI turns her perspective into something soft, rhythmic, and intimate — part freestyle confessional, part late-night bedroom pop. It plays like a summer memory she never meant to say out loud: arriving in a new town, working at the siopao stall, watching a shy boy circle the store every day as if gathering the courage to enter her world.
Her verses reveal what the boy never saw — how she laughed off their rough first encounter, how she noticed him long before he ever noticed himself changing, how fear and affection tangled into something she didn’t know how to keep. Even her goodbye carries that mix of tenderness and hesitation, shaped by someone who learned about leaving long before she ever learned how to love.
This is the softer timeline. The one where she gets to speak, even if she never stays.
Background & Narrative
This track imagines the POV the boy never heard. Her perspective adds warmth and vulnerability to the timeline, filling in spaces the original story leaves untouched. Through KYU.BI’s dreamy, rhythmic delivery, she becomes more than a memory — she becomes a person wrestling with her own past, her first love, and the quiet fear of staying long enough to be hurt again.
Her goodbye isn’t cruel. It’s a preemptive wound, carved out of survival.
In this version, she remembers him just as deeply as he remembered her.
Listen to the EP
Running Out of Time is part of a three-view storytelling EP exploring the lost timeline of Siopao: Part Zero—a parallel world where Z3RØ’s story ends before it ever begins.
