We're only young and naive still
We require certain skills
The mood it changes like the wind
Hard to control when it begins

The bittersweet between my teeth
Trying to find the in-betweens
Fall back in love eventually
Yeah yeah yeah yeah

Can't help myself but count the flaws
Claw my way out through these walls
One temporary escape
Feel it start to permeate

We lie beneath the stars at night
Our hands gripping each other tight
You keep my secrets hope to die
Promises, swear them to the sky

The bittersweet between my teeth
Trying to find the in-betweens
Fall back in love eventually
Yeah yeah yeah yeah

As it withers
Brittle it shakes
Can you whisper
As it crumbles and breaks
As you shiver
Count up all your mistakes
Pair of forgivers
Let go before it's too late
Can you whisper
Can you whisper
Can you whisper
Can you whisper

The bittersweet between my teeth
Trying to find the in-betweens
Fall back in love eventually
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
The bittersweet between my teeth
Trying to find the in-betweens
Fall back in love eventually
Yeah yeah yeah yeah



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Track duration: 04:07

"Young Blood" as written by Alisa Xayalith Aaron Short

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    Song Meaning:This song is clearly about being young, (YOUNG BLOOD), and the different things that happen in one's youth such as love, rejections, the desire to escape.

    "As it withers
    Brittle it shakes
    Can you whisper
    As it crumbles and breaks
    As you shiver
    Count up all your mistakes
    Pair of forgivers
    Let go before it's too late
    Can you whisper
    Can you whisper
    Can you whisper
    Can you whisper"

    This is saying to enjoy the moments before they fade away and disregarding the mistakes made during this time.
    Flag guitarghoston March 18, 2013   Link
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    General Comment:to me this song is about a secret love, just saying
    Flag highschoolloveron January 31, 2013   Link
  • +1
    General Comment:maybe there aren't enough lyrics to support my claim, but i always thought this song was about drugs.
    smoking weed in particular: "we're all young and naive still, we require certain skills; the mood it changes like the wind, hard to control when it begins" "one temporary escape, feel it start to permeate" "bittersweet between my teeth, trying to find the in-betweens"
    i think the "bittersweet between my teeth" refers to a cigarette/blunt/joint/whatever held between someone's teeth
    Flag joshphilippion January 09, 2013   Link
  • +1
    Song Meaning:Very high school/teen feelings all through this song. "Can't help but think of all the flaws, Claw my way out of these walls"..There are so many things wrong with you and your school in high school, you want to leave it. The temp escape that starts to permeate is looking up to the stars at night and taking your mind off you and your issues and looking up into outer space and how beautiful it is. The bittersweet is the feeling that it's supposed to be a great time when you are young and beautiful(probably the best looking you'll ever be), but it's also the most depressing stressful part of life(Will he/she go with you to the party? Will you make the team? Are you going to get good grades? Not to mention how tired you always were and are your friends trusting and good or will they turn on you?}..that's what makes high school/youth bittersweet.
    Flag Yepprdon August 16, 2012   Link
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    Memory:Reminds me of my past relationship.

    [Can't help myself but count the flaws
    Claw my way out through these walls
    One temporary escape
    Feel it start to permeate]

    For a while I was pretty in love with this guy, but staying with him after a while, I began to count his flaws and began to dislike him for them. I wanted to escape the relationship and I did. I broke it off suddenly and ignored and avoided him for years to come. We were young then. We've grown now.

    [The bittersweet between my teeth
    Trying to find the in-betweens
    Fall back in love eventually
    Yeah yeah yeah yeah]

    I'd still think of him, they were bittersweet thoughts. I loved him still, but a part of me disliked him. By a per chance meeting, we found each other again. We talked and talked, and it was a repeat of the past. But it was a bittersweet feeling because I knew I liked him but a part of me still found it painful. Yet, I tried really hard to find the in betweens, because in all honesty I really wanted to fall back in love with him.
    Flag shulon August 09, 2012   Link
  • +1
    General Comment:What a beautiful song.

    The impermanence of youth and relationships. We can only realistically hold onto our memories and what once was--what once inhabited a space in time. Eventually, the old will always be replaced with the new and so the cycle continues.

    cheers
    Flag brisseissifyon August 02, 2012   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:this song is a love song, but not for another person. It's a love song for yourself, and your youth. It's about actually loving life, and doing whatever makes you happy. We can't all like forever, so you need to embrace your youth.
    I get that now. :)
    Flag dancing13on August 02, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:The emotion is so evident in this song. The line "fall back in love eventually" is very powerful.

    For more:

    yournewfavsong.blogspot.com/2012/06/…">"The Naked and Famous - "Young Blood"
    Flag the270bloggeron June 27, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:Sorry is my english its not very good but i wanted to post a comment about what this song means to me, only because I think its a very especial song. I hope I can explain myself.

    For me this song is about the doubts, the maturity (or inmaturity that you experience in your youngness), and as it saids in the song "We are young and naive still" I dont think its refering only to a young love but to the "Young blood" that moves all the actions you do. When you are young you "fall back in love eventually", "The mood it changes like the wind" and you are constantly in all the situations "Trying to find the in-betweens" because you dont have the strenght to carry this situations alone (as in a relationship or as in situations with family or life in general).

    I think the line " The bittersweet between my teeth" is a reference to the sweet and bitter moments you live. Like sometimes you have good moments and sometimes you have bad moments that are amplified by this changes of mood you have. SOmetimes you make mistakes that leave a bittersweet flavour in your teeth.

    "Can't help myself but count the flaws
    Claw my way out through these walls
    One temporary escape
    Feel it start to permeate"

    When you are young you are constantly searching for the flaws wheter is in you or in the others; you are searching for escapes but in the end its only temporary and the feelings starts to permeate.

    "As it withers
    Brittle it shakes
    Can you whisper
    As it crumbles and breaks
    As you shiver
    Count up all your mistakes
    Pair of forgivers
    Let go before it's too late
    Can you whisper"

    I think this is a methaphor, as you grow and as it withers, as it brittle you have to learn to whisper ( to not make a big fuzz), you have to forgive yourself and the others and live with your mistakes because they make you grown.

    For me this song expresses the beauty and the roughness of being young!! :)
    Flag likewindon June 09, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:the bitter-sweet between my teeth,
    trying to find the in-between

    i think it means loving someone you can't have, but you still cherish their friendship -
    it's bittersweet; because it's better than not being with them at all, but you still want something more
    the in-between, when you can have this person in your life, but not as a lover. you're trying to find out if you can live with it or not.

    fall back in love eventually - when you can finally get over this person and fall in love again

    well that's what it means to me =]


    As it withers
    Brittle it shakes
    Can you whisper
    As it crumbles and breaks
    As you shiver
    Count up all your mistakes
    Pair of forgivers
    Let go before it's too late

    I think this is about the ending friendship, or maybe when one person tells the other they love him/her
    count up all your mistakes - the person loving the other knows they shouldn't, and maybe the other led them on a little bit.
    Let go before its too late - before you ruin what you have
    Flag aflawlessperformanceon May 01, 2012   Link

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