When You Were Young [F] - The Killers
[Intro]
[F] | [G] [Am] | [C] | [F] | x2
[Verse 1]
F G Am
You sit there in your heartache
C F
Waiting on some beautiful boy to
F G Am
To save you from your old ways
C
You play forgiveness
F
Watch it now, here he comes
[Chorus]
F G Am
He doesn't look a thing like Je-sus
C
But he talks like a gentleman
F
Like you imagined
F G Am C F
When you were young
[Verse 2]
F
Can we climb this mountain
G Am
I don't know
C F
Higher now than e-ver before
F G Am
I know we can make it if we take it slow
C
Let's take it easy
F
Easy now, watch it go
[Chorus]
F G Am
We're burning down the highway sky-line
C
On the back of a hurricane
F
That started turning
F G Am C F
When you were young
F G Am C F
When you were young
[Verse 3]
F G
And sometimes you close your eyes
Am C F
And see the place where you used to live
F F
When you were young
[Instrumental]
[F] | [G] [Am] | [C] | [F] | x2
[Bridge]
Dm
The say the devil's water, it ain't so sweet
F Am
You don't have to drink right now
Em Am
But you can dip your feet
G F G Am C F
Every once in a... little while
[Instrumental]
[Verse 4]
F G Am
You sit there in your heartache
C F
Waiting on some beautiful boy to
F G Am
To save you from your old ways
C
You play forgiveness
F
Watch it now, here he comes
[Chorus]
G
He doesn't look a thing like Jesus
C
But he talks like a gentleman
Am
Like you imagined
F G Am
When you were young
C
(talks like a gentleman)
F
(like you imagined)
F G Am C F
When you were young
[Outro]
F G Am C F
I said he doesn't look a thing like Jesus
F G Am C F
He doesn't look a thing like Jesus
F Em Dm C (C Bm Am) G
But more than you'll ever know
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