Keep Your Heart Young - Brandi Carlile
Tuned Down a Half Step

[Intro]


[Verse]
             
My grandpa gav

              
e me a wheat p

             
enny and I kep

        
t it in my poc

ket
             
I had big plan

              
s in my back y

       
ard to build m

e a space rock

et
             
I talked to my

              
 brother on a 

              
fake CB that I

             
 made from a t

       
ic-tac box
             
I packed my sn

              
owballs nice a

              
nd tight and i

             
n the middle I

     
 put rocks


[Pre-Chorus]
             
Don’t trade in

              
 your tic-tac 

              
box for a ball

              
 on the end of

   
 a chain
             
Don’t go spend

              
ing Grandpa’s 

              
pennies buying

               
 into the game


[Chorus]
             
You gotta keep

            
 your heart yo

ung
             
Don’t go growi

        
n old before y

our time has c

ome
              
You can’t take

             
 back what you

      
 have done
             
You’ve gotta k

              
eep your heart

 
 young


[Verse]
             
Dad took the w

              
heels off of m

              
y bike and he 

             
pushed me down

     
 the hill
             
But speed got 

              
the best of me

     
 and I took my

 first spill
             
That was back 

              
when alcohol w

             
as only used o

  
n cuts
             
It stung like 

              
hell so I jerk

              
ed my leg and 

             
momma said it’

          
d give me guts


[Pre-Chorus]
             
Don’t trade in

              
 your tic-tac 

              
box for a ball

              
 on the end of

   
 a chain
             
Don’t go spend

              
ing Grandpa’s 

              
pennies buying

          
 into the game


[Chorus]
             
You gotta keep

            
 your heart yo

ung
             
Don’t go growi

        
n old before y

our time has c

ome
              
You can’t take

             
 back what you

      
 have done
             
You’ve gotta k

              
eep your heart

 
 young


[Verse]
             
So take a pict

              
ure of the one

              
 you love and 

           
put it in a lo

cket
             
Go dig up your

              
 time capsule 

        
and the bluepr

ints for your 

rocket
             
Keep in touch 

              
on a fake CB, 

             
that same old 

        
tic-tac box
             
Pack your snow

              
balls a little

              
 less tight bu

             
t in the middl

              
e - still put 


rocks


[Chorus]
             
And keep your 

      
heart young
             
Don’t go growi

        
n old before y

our time has c

ome
              
You can’t take

             
 back what you

      
 have done
             
You’ve gotta k

              
eep your heart

 
 young


[Outro]
             
You gotta keep

            
 your heart yo

ung
    
Sometimes you 

don’t die quic

k
     
Just like you 

wished you’d d

one
             
Though love is

          
 a loaded gun
             
You’ve gotta k

              
eep your heart

 
 young
              
You can’t take

             
 back what you

             
 have done is 


done
             
You’ve gotta k

              
eep your heart

        
 young