Beck Youthless Lyrics

Youthless Lyrics

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

Deadweight 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