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Youth is the second single from Trawlerboy's upcoming EP - Elsewhere. The song reflects themes of nostalgia and happiness; despair and longing. The repetition of “What is the use of youth?” in the middle section expresses the prism of isolation through enveloping and lofty vocals layered over punctuated swaths of strings and piano melodies. Youth opens with the line “I’m tortured by all the happiness I felt,” reflecting on the daunting precarity of time slipping away and the fear of wasting it. The song escalates with the sinister and disquieting, but equally ecstatic phrase, “I’ll never be free.” Whether this is a proclamation or a question, is for us to decide.