When You Were Young - The Killers


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WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG
SAM'S TOWN
THE KILLERS
2006

I understand that some people who don't have access to a capo (makeshift or 
otherwise!) would like to play this song, so here's my version. The album version 
is tuned a half step down, but you can choose whether or not you'd like to play it that way.

[Verse 1]
             
You sit there 

            
in your hearta


che
             
Waiting on som

   
e beautiful bo

y to 
             
save you from 

        
your old ways 

You play forgi

veness 

Watch it now .

.. here he com

es! 

             
He doesn't loo

              
k a thing like

   
 Jesus 
             
But he talks l

 
ike a gentlema

n 
             
Like you imagi

              
ned when you w

            
ere young 

[Verse 2]

Can we climb t

his mountain 
       
I don't know 
             
Higher now tha

   
n ever before 
             
I know we can 

              
make it if we 

       
take it slow 

Let's take it 

easy 

Easy now, watc

h it go 

             
We're burning 

              
down the highw

      
ay skyline 
       
On the back of

 a hurricane t

hat started tu

rning 
             
When you were 

          
young 
             
When you were 

          
young 

[Interlude]
             
And sometimes 

              
you close your

 
 eyes 
           
and see the pl

              
ace where you 

        
used to live 
             
When you were 

         
young 

[Filler]      () 

[Bridge]
             
They say the d


evil's water, 

it ain't so sw

eet 
            
You don't have

              
 to drink righ

  
t now 
            
But you can di

       (
p your feet 
              
Every once in 

         
a little while

 

[Solo]             

[Verse 1]
             
You sit there 

           
in your hearta

che 
             
Waiting on som

  
e beautiful bo

y to 
             
To save you fr

            
om your old wa


ys 

You play forgi

veness 

Watch it now h

ere he comes 

             
He doesn't loo

              
k a thing like

   
 Jesus 
       
But he talks l

ike a gentlema

n 
             
Like you imagi

              
ned when you w

       
ere young 
             
(He talks like

             
 a gentlemen, 

like you imagi

ned when) 

[Outro]
            
When you were 

                 
young 
             
I said he does

              
n't look a thi

                      
ng like Jesus 
             
He doesn't loo

              
k a thing like

              
 Jesus 
              
But more than 

             
you'll ever kn

            (      
ow

*  I made the  chord in the filler optional. It's how it's supposed to be 
  
leave it out. 

    
It's fine eith

          
er way :)

I'm also open to any corrections, but I'm fairly sure that this is around 98% 
accurate. Thanks for playing this!