Beck - Youthless (Modern Guilt)

Beck performing his song "Youthless" from the 2008 Interscope/XL album, "Modern Guilt."

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 that you carry round
The 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
These trademarks so bereaved
Tied my leg to a barricade
With a plastic hand grenade
That 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
Tied to nothing

And he's helpless
And forgetting in the background
Giving nothing
That is youthless
Trembling
With his bare hands
Holding nothing

Credits-

Vocals: Beck Hansen
Electric Guitar: Beck Hansen
Cello: Larry Corbett
Keyboard: Brian Lebarton, Greg Kurstin
Synthesizer: Brian Lebarton, Greg Kurstin
Bass Guitar: Matt Mahaffey
Beats: Danger Mouse
Produced By: Beck Hansen, Danger Mouse
Engineered By: Drew Brown
Recorded At: Anonyme Studios
This Video Edited By: StrayBlues
Thanks To: Interscope, XL, UMG, Beck Hansen, whiskeyclone
MMVIII

Category:

Music

Tags:

• beck
• hansen
• youthless
• modern
• guilt
• alternative

[q5e7f]

there should be a Nobel Prize for music if there isn't one;and Beck should win it.

[LuxeXx]

very borderline on club material....

[xXirisIsdeadXx]

Love this song <3

Am I the only one who wants to steal his hat?

[Joey7321]

I like the song, but I really hate the cover. Those hats are so annoying!

[MaBoogins]

I love this track. I've been listening to this album a lot as of late. It fueled my lifting session today. Fantastic; Beck is amazing.

[jabbadu431]

This song oozes cool.

[katiekitty21]

I love him!

[MegaEvil18]

@q5e7f third

[spaceeskimo11t]

beck is just such a Juggernaut

[borrachocansado]

almost everythig i need

but i can't replace the one

that made me truly happy

[medicatedmarrionet]

@q5e7f I second this notion