Youthless
by Beck

Album: Modern Guilt (2008)
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  • There's a bottomless pit that we've been climbing from
    Just to get on level ground
    Shake your seasick legs around
    Dead of winter in a logo town
    Signs of life are soft and flickering

    Need a bed to lay my body down
    Dead weight to carry down
    Some static is lulling me to sleep

    Hang your clothes on a chain link fence
    In a junkyard say amen
    Your mouth is full of wordless hymns
    And run-on sentences

    And they're helpless and forgetting in the background
    Holding nothing
    And they're youthless and pretending with their bare hands
    Holding nothing

    There's a million horses dragging down a monolith
    With these trademarks so bereaved
    Tied my leg to a barricade
    With a plastic hand grenade
    They tried to turn emotion into noise

    Need a teleprompter for my life
    Need a pipeline to the night
    My body can't get no relief

    And this life it goes by fast
    You're treading water in the past
    Trying to re-animate something that you can't understand

    And they're helpless and forgetting in the background saying nothing
    And he's youthless and forgetting with his bare hands touching nothing

    And he's helpless and forgetting in the background saying nothing
    And he's youthless and pretending with his bare hands holding nothing Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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