Youth Is Wasted on the Young

Album: Life Imitating Life (2014)
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  • Frontman Daniel Layus explained the song's meaning to Billboard magazine: "It's when you're lying in bed thinking about your life and what led you to the place you're in," he said. "It's frustrating sometimes and you start chasing your tail. There's no time machine to go back, and even if you could, would you or could you do anything differently? Because I suppose you only know what you know now because you you're here now, you weren't here back then."

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