Guitar chords When You Were Young

The song When You Were Young by The Killers was inspired by lead vocalist Brandon Flowers youth in Las Vegas and discusses the potential for redemption and salvation that love provides. It was partly influenced by his new married life and the challenges of finding true love.

Key:  E
Introduction:
E
 * 
E
  
F#
  
G#m
  
B
  
E
  
E
  
F#
  
G#m
  
B
  
E
  
    
E
                  
F#
     
G#m
 
You sit there in your heart-ache
    
B
              
E
 
Waiting on some beautiful boy to
 
E
                
F#
       
G#m
 
To save you from your old ways
 
B
 
You play forgiveness
E
 
Watch it now Here he comes

    
E
                       
F#
 
G#m
 
He doesnt look a thing like Je-sus
            
B
 
But he talks like a gentleman
 
E
 
Like you imagined
              
F#
 
G#m
 
When you were young

B
       
E
 

 
E
 
Can we climb this mountain
 
F#
     
G#m
 
I dont know
 
B
                        
E
 
Higher now than ever before
 
E
                           
F#
      
G#m
 
I know we can make it if we take it slow
 
B
 
Let's take it easy
  
E
 
Easy now,  watch it go

 
E
                             
F#
   
G#m
 
We're burning down the highway sky- line
         
B
 
On the back of a hurricane
 
E
 
That started turning
               
F#
  
G#m
     
B
    
E
 
When you were   young
               
F#
  
G#m
     
B
   
E
 
When you were   young

       
E
           
F#
          
G#m
 
And sometimes you close your eyes
              
B
                      
E
 
And see the place where you used to live
                
F#
  
G#m
     
B
     
E
 
When you were    young

E
  
F#
  
G#m
  
B
  
E
 
E
  
D#m
   
C#m
   
B
   
A#m
   
G#m
    
F#
 

            
C#m
 
The say the devil's water, it ain't so sweet.
    
E
                         
G#m
 
You don't have to drink right now.
D#m
                     
G#m
 
   But you can dip your feet.
F#
                            
E
       
F#
  
G#m
 
B
       
E
 
   Every once in a little while.

E
  
F#
  
G#m
  
B
  
E
 

    
E
                  
F#
     
G#m
 
You sit there in your heart-ache
    
B
                       
E
 
Waiting on some beautiful boy to
 
E
                
F#
       
G#m
 
To save you from your old ways
 
B
 
You play forgiveness
E
 
Watch it now Here he comes

    
F#
 
He doesnt look a thing like Je-sus
        
B
 
But he talks like a gentleman
 
G#m
 
Like you imagined
      
E
       
F#
 
G#m
 
When you were young
 
B
 
(talks like a gentleman)
 
E
 
(like you imagined)
 
E
            
F#
  
G#m
           
B
   
E
 
When you were young

                                  
F#
   
G#m
    
B
   
E
 
I said he doesnt look a thing like Jesus
                           
F#
   
G#m
         
B
    
E
 
He doesnt look a thing like Jesus
           
E
  
D#m
   
C#m
   
B
   
A#m
   
G#m
   
F#
 
But more than you'll ever know