The Killers – When You Were Young (Guitar)

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Different key from previous version with some changes and additions 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