Youthless – English Lyrics

• By: Beck

Lyrics & Translation

Delve into Beck's 'Youthless' to experience a unique blend of introspective English lyrics and an infectious rhythm. This song offers a great opportunity to explore nuanced vocabulary related to emotions and societal critique. What makes 'Youthless' special is its personal connection to Beck's own creative past, offering a bridge between his teenage artistic explorations and his mature musical output.

[English]

There's a bottomless pit that we've been climbing from

Just to get on level ground

Shake your seasick legs around

Everyone in a logo town

Signs of life are stark and flickering

I need a bed to lay my body down

Dead weight to carry me 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 we're helpless and forgetting in the background holding nothing

And we're youthless and pretending in the bearhands holding nothing

There's a million horse dragging down a monolith

These trademarks so bereaved

Tied my leg to a barricade

With a plastic handgrenade

They tried to turn emotion into noise

I 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

To treading water in the past

While you try to reanimate something that you don't understand

And we're helpless and forgetting in the background don't saying nothing

And he's youthless and forgetting in the bare hymns tied to nothing

And he's helpless and forgetting in the background don't saying nothing

And he's youthless and pretending with his bare hands tied to nothing

Key Grammar Structures

• There's a bottomless pit that we've been climbing from

  ➔ Present Perfect Continuous

  ➔ The phrase "we've been climbing" uses the Present Perfect Continuous to describe an action that started in the past and continues up to the present.

• Everyone in a logo town

  ➔ Prepositional Phrase

  ➔ The phrase "in a logo town" is a prepositional phrase that modifies the noun "everyone" by indicating location.

• I need a bed to lay my body down

  ➔ Infinitive of Purpose

  ➔ The phrase "to lay my body down" is an infinitive of purpose, explaining why the subject needs a bed.

• Your mouth is full of wordless hymns

  ➔ Adjective Clause

  ➔ The phrase "full of wordless hymns" is an adjective clause that describes the noun "mouth".

• And we're helpless and forgetting in the background

  ➔ Conjunction and Parallel Structure

  ➔ The use of "and" connects two adjectives "helpless" and "forgetting" in a parallel structure.

• They tried to turn emotion into noise

  ➔ Infinitive as Direct Object

  ➔ The infinitive phrase "to turn emotion into noise" functions as the direct object of the verb "tried".

• Need a pipeline to the night

  ➔ Prepositional Phrase as Object

  ➔ The prepositional phrase "to the night" acts as the object of the verb "need".

• While you try to reanimate something that you don't understand

  ➔ Subordinate Clause with 'while'

  ➔ The clause "while you try to reanimate something" is a subordinate clause that indicates time, introduced by 'while'.