The word "Анабиоз" (Anabiosis) refers to a state of suspended animation or greatly reduced metabolic activity, often in response to adverse environmental conditions. It's a scientific term not commonly found in everyday conversation or song lyrics, making it quite unique and intriguing.
In the context of the song, the artist uses "Анабиоз" metaphorically to describe a desire to escape the harsh realities of life by entering a state of emotional dormancy. It represents a longing to shut down feelings and consciousness to avoid pain, hoping that one day, someone might be able to reawaken those buried emotions.
"Анабиоз" takes its name from the term for suspended animation, the state where a body slows almost to a standstill to survive conditions it could not otherwise live through. Mzlff uses it to describe his own emotional life.
The first verse looks outward and finds nothing worth looking at. Collapse everywhere, and people whose lives run on a loop he can already predict. He imagines a different fate, one where he might suddenly see the world in color, and then admits that even then his instinct would be to climb into a cocoon and sleep through the cold season. Winter or spring, he says, makes no difference to him.
The chorus is where the metaphor lands. In suspended animation the soul cannot get warm, because life has become pure inertia, a process rather than something lived. He locks himself away and nobody can reach his heart, himself included. Every time he wakes up, he is still in the same nightmare.
The second verse turns to his scars. He is tired of pretending everything is fine, and he notices something uncomfortable about his own pain: if he could hand these old wounds back, he would find a way to cut them again. They are what stitch him together and hold him like chainmail. Without them, he thinks, he would still be a ghost.
The song ends on its one warm line. He hides his feelings in anabiosis not to be rid of them, but hoping that one day someone will be able to reach in and touch them.
Mzlff is the stage name of Ilya Koryakov, a Russian rapper, singer-songwriter, and streamer born in 1999. He began making music in the mid-2010s and built a wider following after his single "Помню" ("I Remember") went viral on TikTok in 2021. Before turning to music full time he studied economics in Moscow, and he now lives and works out of Saint Petersburg. His sound blends pop rap and pop rock, pairing melodic hooks with raw, confessional lyrics about anxiety, isolation, and emotional numbness. He has released several full-length projects, including Светлая сторона (Svetlaya Storona), КАЧ (Kach), and QTOPIA. Mzlff gave his first solo concerts in 2022 and toured cities across Russia the following year, building a devoted young fanbase drawn to his blunt, diary-like songwriting.