[4][5] The lyrics to the song are about the band throwing themselves into the headlong of hedonism, sex, drugs, and rock and roll.

[6] "Young Lust" is a blues-inflected hard rock number in E minor, approximately 3 minutes, 25 seconds in length.

On the album, the preceding song, "Empty Spaces", ends with an abrupt transition into "Young Lust".

[4] At this point in the album's narrative, Pink has achieved wealth and fame, and is usually away from home, due to the demands of his career as a touring performer.

He is having casual sex with groupies to relieve the tedium of the road, and is living a separate life from his wife.

The dialogue with the operator was the result of an arrangement co-producer James Guthrie made with a neighbour in London, Chris Fitzmorris,[7] while the album was being recorded in Los Angeles.