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Youth is Wasted on the Young (feat. Murray Macleod) Lyrics
The past is dead!
I walk the funeral march and I will make my peace!
The past is dead!
I walk the funeral march and I will make my peace!
If we stop the clock, will I reappear?
Pulled from the drift
There goes another year
The stars align, the planets shift,
All the infinite moments that we've missed.
There's parts of me that are lost forever.
At least we're all lost together!
We all remember youth like it's dead and gone
Like our favourite line, from a forgotten song
I'll show you my hurt and I'll show you my heart
A life lost in the dark
The past is dead!
I walk the funeral march and I will make my peace!
The past is dead!
I walk the funeral march and I will make my peace!
When I reach the end, will I beg for more?
Will I look back? Or step through the door?
I stand beneath a monolith
Do you ever feel like you won't be missed?
There's parts of me that are lost forever.
At least we're all lost together!
I heard that this was only a ride
So there's no worth in waiting for death to arrive
All we are, is just a name, it's all we are
Our skin, it shows, these crippled bones
Youth sinks alone
All we are, is just a name, it's all we are
Our skin, it shows, these crippled bones
Youth sinks alone
I'll show you my hurt and I'll show you my heart,
A life lost in the dark.
There's parts of me that are lost forever!!
At least we're all lost together!
Oh!
There's parts of me that are lost forever!
I walk the funeral march and I will make my peace!
I walk the funeral march and I will make my peace!
Pulled from the drift
There goes another year
All the infinite moments that we've missed.
At least we're all lost together!
We all remember youth like it's dead and gone
Like our favourite line, from a forgotten song
A life lost in the dark
I walk the funeral march and I will make my peace!
I walk the funeral march and I will make my peace!
Will I look back? Or step through the door?
I stand beneath a monolith
Do you ever feel like you won't be missed?
At least we're all lost together!
I heard that this was only a ride
So there's no worth in waiting for death to arrive
Our skin, it shows, these crippled bones
Youth sinks alone
Our skin, it shows, these crippled bones
Youth sinks alone
A life lost in the dark.
At least we're all lost together!
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Tom: “It’s about that scary feeling when you know you’re not a kid anymore, facing the future, compromising on what you love, social pressure.”
Dan: “Me and Tom started this band when we were 16 and we still get asked ‘When are you going to get a real job?’. It’s about dealing with that all the time.”
Tom: “It’s where the inspiration for the album titles comes from, everyone goes through this, fearing growing old, but at least we’re going through it all together.”
The title more or less says it all: "Youth is wasted on the young", which I think means that while we're all young, we take life for granted. We waste too much time on things that don't matter, whether we realize that at the time or not because we think we have forever. We don't really know enough to live life to its fullest, and once we've realized this, we're old or in a situation where we can't do everything we want to. As we grow up, we all lose pieces of ourselves, we all fall apart. We give pieces to every person, place, and thing that we have ever loved, and sometimes those pieces are taken from us without our permission from people, places, or things we hate. And while it feels lonely and sucks, we're all together in the fact that we are broken and alone. In this song, he sounds like he's making peace with the fact that the past is the past and there's nothing we can do about it. We just have to cut our losses and continue on.