The Back-Burner: Aerosmith Outtakes & Demos

While My Only Angel set the tone as the first single from Aerosmith and YUNGBLUD’s One More Time EP, fans have now caught a glimpse of partial lyrics to a track titled “Problems.” The fragment appeared briefly in a lyric video and was quickly transcribed by eagle-eyed listeners:

Yeah, I know I’ve felt you in my life
In the streets of every city
Where I dream at night
I met all the bitter scenes, and I was sold
But to get to where you want
You can’t do what you’re told

When you don’t know what it is, then you see
When you don’t know what it is, then you see

I got a whole lot of problems
But it don’t matter when I’m with you
A whole lot of nothin’
If I can’t have it all with you

Yeah, yeah, yeah!

Won’t you take me to your heaven?
Give me what I want,
Give me what I need

What the lyrics suggest

If Angel was about surrendering to pure connection, Problems feels like the messy flip side — love in the real world, scarred by doubt and temptation but still clung to as salvation. Tyler’s delivery of “I got a whole lot of problems / But it don’t matter when I’m with you” suggests both confession and release: the storm remains, but love becomes the shelter.

The verses paint a bleaker cityscape — “bitter scenes,” a sense of being sold out — that contrasts against the almost gospel-like plea in the chorus for heaven, need, and want. It’s both a fight and a prayer, classic Aerosmith territory where desire and ruin blur into one another.

YUNGBLUD’s fingerprints are visible too. The repetition (“When you don’t know what it is, then you see”) feels like his style of punk-mantra writing — short, jagged bursts that beg to be shouted back by a crowd.

The sound it might carry

Lyrically, Problems calls for something rawer than the glossy punch of Angel. You can imagine a slinking riff in the verses, tense and coiled, before erupting into a chorus that swings between swagger and desperation. It could easily sit next to Aerosmith’s darker deep cuts (Ain’t That a Bitch, Deuces Are Wild) but dressed up with YUNGBLUD’s modern grit.

If Matt Sorum is indeed drumming on these sessions, expect something muscular and straight-ahead — no frills, just drive. Pair that with Joe Perry’s bite and Tyler’s pleading vocals, and the result could be one of the EP’s most emotionally charged tracks.

What it means for the EP

With five songs confirmed, Problems feels like the emotional anchor: less a throwaway rocker, more the track that explains why this collaboration exists in the first place. If Angel pulled in casual listeners, Problems could be the song that convinces long-time fans that Aerosmith aren’t just revisiting old tricks — they’re still willing to bare the flaws and fight for meaning in 2025.

And maybe that’s the point. Aerosmith have always been a band defined by their “problems” — addiction, break-ups, health scares, messy comebacks. To hear Tyler and YUNGBLUD chanting “it don’t matter when I’m with you” feels less like a love song and more like a survival song.