Youth Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Felixium 

Cover art for Youth lyrics by Daughter

I absolutely break every time I listen to this song. It somehow brings the words to the emotions that I thought weren’t explainable. It captures the growth in youth into the harsh realities that surrounds life. It shows the people who were once excited for their futures, their dream lives only to realize that reality will kill them before they get there. That they’ll have to one day give up their dreams just to provide food for themselves, to only care about the essentials of life which is survival. The emptiness is the harsh acceptance of reality, the unfulfillment that reality punches our gut’s with. The heartbreaks from fallen relationships strips away our romance, our love, our hope, our trust. The heartbreaks that replaces our emotions with emptiness, forever missing our love, our happiness, ourselves. If you’re still breathing/bleeding, you still have room for emotions, you still have hope, hope for a dream life with your dream partner. You still have goddamn emotions, don’t let it be taken from you. The pictures we gather from the flood are the memories, the memories of ourselves before we were filled with emptiness, the flood representing our tears or our emotions one by one flushing out of our systems. We’re a silhouette, we’re forgotten, we are no longer important and we will likely never be. We are the people in the background. This song means a lot to me..