When You Were Young Chords & Tabs

by The Killers

[Version Description]
Strumming Patterns:
Pattern 1:
BPM: 130
Denominator: 8
Triplet: No
Measures: [1, 101, 1, 101, 1, 101, 1, 101]
Different key from previous version with some changes and additions
The Killers - When You Were Young
E   – (022100) or (x79997)
E*  - (x79909)
F#  - (244322)
G#m – (466444)
B   – (x24442)
C#m – (x46654)
D#m – (x68876)
A#m – (688766)

[Intro]
E*
| E    | F# G#m | B    | E    |
| E    | F# G#m | B    | E    |

[Verse 1]
E                    F#    G#m 
You sit there in your heartache
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

[Chorus]
   E                         F# G#m
He doesn't look a thing like Je-sus
      B                      
But he talks like a gentleman
E                
Like you imagined
      E       F# G#m B E
When you were young

[Verse 2]
E                         
Can we climb this mountain
F#      G#m 
I don't know
B                E          
Higher now than e-ver 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

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

[Verse 3]
      E                       F# 
And sometimes you close your eyes
    G#m       B                      E  
And see the place where you used to live
      E         E  
When you were young

[Instrumental]
|(E)   | F# G#m | B    | E    |
| E    | F# G#m | B    | E    |
| E  D#m  C#m | B  B A#m G#m | F#   |(F#)

[Bridge]
            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

[Instrumental]
| E    | F# G#m | B    | E    | x2

[Verse 4]
E                    F#    G#m 
You sit there in your heartache
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

[Chorus]
   F#                             
He doesn't look a thing like Jesus
      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

[Outro]
          E                         F# G#m B E
I said he doesn't look a thing like Jesus
   E                         F# G#m B E
He doesn't look a thing like Jesus
                      E     D#m C#m B B A#m G#m F#
But more than you'll ever know