When You Were Young
The Killers Lyrics
You sit there in your heartache
Waiting on some beautiful boy to
To save you from your old ways
You play forgiveness
Watch it now, here he comes
He doesn't look a thing like Jesus
But he talks like a gentlemen
Like you imagined when you were young
I don't know
Higher now than ever before
I know we can make it if we take it slow
Let's take it easy
Easy now, watch it go
We're burning down the highway skyline
On the back of a hurricane that started turning
When you were young
When you were young
And sometimes you close your eyes
And see the place where you used to live
When you were young
They say the devil's water, it ain't so sweet
You don't have to drink right now
But you can dip your feet
Every once in a little while
You sit there in your heartache
Waiting on some beautiful boy to
To save you from your old ways
You play forgiveness
Watch it now, here he comes
He doesn't look a thing like Jesus
But he talks like a gentlemen
Like you imagined when you were young
(Talks like a gentlemen, like you imagined)
When you were young
I said he doesn't look a thing like Jesus
He doesn't look a thing like Jesus
But more than you'll ever know
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: Brandon Flowers, Dave Brent Keuning, Mark August Stoermer, Ronnie Jr. Vannucci
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When You Were Young is a song written and performed by Las Vegas-based rock band, The Killers, and is the third track on their second album Sam's Town, released in October 2006.
The song was released as the lead single from that album in September 2006. It has proven to be one of their most successful singles, peaking at #14 on the U.S. Hot 100 (only Mr. Brightside peaked higher on this chart at #10), as well as their only number 1 to date on the U. Read Full BioWhen You Were Young is a song written and performed by Las Vegas-based rock band, The Killers, and is the third track on their second album Sam's Town, released in October 2006.
The song was released as the lead single from that album in September 2006. It has proven to be one of their most successful singles, peaking at #14 on the U.S. Hot 100 (only Mr. Brightside peaked higher on this chart at #10), as well as their only number 1 to date on the U.S. Modern Rock Tracks. It is also their highest charting single to date in the United Kingdom and Australia, peaking at numbers 2 and 10 respectively.
The song, that is in the key of B major and written in common time, displays the band's move towards a more "American" musical style, as it is part of an album that was supposedly heavily influenced by the music of Bruce Springsteen.
The song itself was reportedly influenced by Springsteen's Born to Run.
The song was nominated for the 2007 Grammy Award for 'Best Rock Song', and the single's video, directed by Anthony Mandler, received a nomination in the category of 'Best Short Form Music Video'.
The single was ranked #69 on iTunes Top 100 Best Sellers: Songs of 2006. The song also made #4 on the Triple J Hottest 100 in 2006.
The music video for this song was filmed in Tlayacapan, Mexico.
In a frame story, it tells the story of a Mexican woman around the age of 20. The video opens with her arriving at a large, white, wooden cross in the desert. She mourns in front of it until her supposed husband shows up and comforts her. In the next scene, she is praying at a church; after leaving, she meets up with her husband. One day she arrives home to find her husband in bed with another woman; seeing them together, she runs out crying, with her husband running out after her. The video flashes back to their wedding as she runs away. After showing the woman washing herself, the video cuts to a bar, which the woman enters. She sits at the same table as her future husband and the woman with whom he later cheats on her with. As they introduce themselves, the other woman leaves. The band is playing in the bar, and the girl looks at Flowers as he sings the last verse, but turns away as the video ends. The final shot is of the cross that the woman visited in the first scene, with the woman still on the ground and the man there with her.
There is also an alternate version of the video in which the woman jumps off a cliff instead of reconciling with the husband.
The song has been covered by Coldplay live at an unplanned appearance for MENCAP, as well as by Finnish singer Astrid Swan, and Taking Back Sunday. It was also covered by Simon Webbe, a former member of British boy band Blue on Jo Whiley's Show on Radio 1 in the Live Lounge.
On the 25th of March 2009, the song was once again covered, this time by The Noisettes.
The song appears in the video games Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, SingStar Amped, and Rock Band.
The song was featured in the third section of the 2006 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show and is played regularly before Baltimore Orioles games at Oriole Park at Camden Yards.
In 2009 it was voted at Number 37 in UK radio station XFM's '100 Greatest Songs of All Time'.
The song was released as the lead single from that album in September 2006. It has proven to be one of their most successful singles, peaking at #14 on the U.S. Hot 100 (only Mr. Brightside peaked higher on this chart at #10), as well as their only number 1 to date on the U. Read Full BioWhen You Were Young is a song written and performed by Las Vegas-based rock band, The Killers, and is the third track on their second album Sam's Town, released in October 2006.
The song was released as the lead single from that album in September 2006. It has proven to be one of their most successful singles, peaking at #14 on the U.S. Hot 100 (only Mr. Brightside peaked higher on this chart at #10), as well as their only number 1 to date on the U.S. Modern Rock Tracks. It is also their highest charting single to date in the United Kingdom and Australia, peaking at numbers 2 and 10 respectively.
The song, that is in the key of B major and written in common time, displays the band's move towards a more "American" musical style, as it is part of an album that was supposedly heavily influenced by the music of Bruce Springsteen.
The song itself was reportedly influenced by Springsteen's Born to Run.
The song was nominated for the 2007 Grammy Award for 'Best Rock Song', and the single's video, directed by Anthony Mandler, received a nomination in the category of 'Best Short Form Music Video'.
The single was ranked #69 on iTunes Top 100 Best Sellers: Songs of 2006. The song also made #4 on the Triple J Hottest 100 in 2006.
The music video for this song was filmed in Tlayacapan, Mexico.
In a frame story, it tells the story of a Mexican woman around the age of 20. The video opens with her arriving at a large, white, wooden cross in the desert. She mourns in front of it until her supposed husband shows up and comforts her. In the next scene, she is praying at a church; after leaving, she meets up with her husband. One day she arrives home to find her husband in bed with another woman; seeing them together, she runs out crying, with her husband running out after her. The video flashes back to their wedding as she runs away. After showing the woman washing herself, the video cuts to a bar, which the woman enters. She sits at the same table as her future husband and the woman with whom he later cheats on her with. As they introduce themselves, the other woman leaves. The band is playing in the bar, and the girl looks at Flowers as he sings the last verse, but turns away as the video ends. The final shot is of the cross that the woman visited in the first scene, with the woman still on the ground and the man there with her.
There is also an alternate version of the video in which the woman jumps off a cliff instead of reconciling with the husband.
The song has been covered by Coldplay live at an unplanned appearance for MENCAP, as well as by Finnish singer Astrid Swan, and Taking Back Sunday. It was also covered by Simon Webbe, a former member of British boy band Blue on Jo Whiley's Show on Radio 1 in the Live Lounge.
On the 25th of March 2009, the song was once again covered, this time by The Noisettes.
The song appears in the video games Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, SingStar Amped, and Rock Band.
The song was featured in the third section of the 2006 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show and is played regularly before Baltimore Orioles games at Oriole Park at Camden Yards.
In 2009 it was voted at Number 37 in UK radio station XFM's '100 Greatest Songs of All Time'.
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Lyrics
You sit there in your heartache
Waiting on some beautiful boy to
To save you from your old ways
You play forgiveness
Watch it now, here he comes
He doesn't look a thing like Jesus
But he talks like a gentlemen
Like you imagined when you were young
Can we climb this mountain?
I don't know
Higher now than ever before
I know we can make it if we take it slow
Let's take it easy
Easy now, watch it go
We're burning down the highway skyline
On the back of a hurricane that started turning
When you were young
When you were young
And sometimes you close your eyes
And see the place where you used to live
When you were young
They say the devil's water, it ain't so sweet
You don't have to drink right now
But you can dip your feet
Every once in a little while
You sit there in your heartache
Waiting on some beautiful boy to
To save you from your old ways
You play forgiveness
Watch it now, here he comes
He doesn't look a thing like Jesus
But he talks like a gentlemen
Like you imagined when you were young
(Talks like a gentlemen, like you imagined)
When you were young
I said he doesn't look a thing like Jesus
He doesn't look a thing like Jesus
But more than you'll ever know
Robert Fobian
Bands formed AFTER 1990 get a lot of grief. I know this because I am GenX and I've shoveled my share of grief on those bands.
I also think it's important for all of us to understand that rock and roll as an art form has been around nearly 70 years now, with roots in black blues that go back even further and continue to remain unacknowledged. It's important to mention all of this because for a band like The Killers (formed in 2001), they had to look back then at FIFTY years of rock and roll and figure out a way how to do something unique that nobody had ever done before.
Let's face it...the more years that go by, the harder and harder it is for rock bands to sound unique or to take us to new sonic experiences. Everything sounds alike the older we get. Part of that is the music industry not wanting to take big risks anymore on artists or bands that are not derivative of something the world is already familiar with.
But you KNOW a Killers song as soon as you hear it! Just like [insert any legacy band name here]. You may not know the name of the song or the lyrics...but you know it's The Killers.
In closing, they are an epic band who deserve to be thought of in the same stratosphere as many great bands. They introduced the world to a new sound...something unique and something iconic. And they did it at a time when a lot of great music had been laid down previous to them. Peace and love upon them...and thank you, Killers.
jlovely8902
My boyfriend who passed away a few weeks ago sang this song when we were at a bar doing karaoke one night. Since he sang it that night, I had been trying to figure out the name of it; I finally came across it tonight. The song has so much meaning to me. We were together for five years and were both young when he sung this song. Now I just watch the video of him in my phone when he sang this song that night at the bar, wishing he was still alive, wishing that we could go back in time to when we were young. R.I.P. Chris, I'll always love you.
GRUPO aiep
F*ck what a las history :(
Quincy Ingram
God Bless You M’am 🙏🏾
Kino Roopnarine
He had great taste, may he rip 🙏 🕊
Anthony MAHIEU
Your story is so sad. I wish you the best for the future and i hope your boyfriend rest in peace!
Roger Garcia
So sad. I'm sorry. Prayers to you.
Tom Ryan
I remember this came out when I was 15. Going to secondary school with no care in the world. Now I'm fast approaching 30. I miss the simplicity of youth and this song is a reminder of that. Really hits hard.
DM ABUSADO
@BLACKEND12 0p
Rusty Shakleford
I remember being in my late teens. getting dropped at my friends house and he blew me off. I was so far from home there was no walking home. I turned on the Killers CD and listened until I fell asleep on their doorstep of their apartment complex waiting.. his mom got home at 2 am and found me there. let me sleep on her couch.
That is my most vivid memory when I hear their music. lol
Cletus Samboy
I got made redundant from my job I worked for 4 years at 21 and walked out of the place sitting in the car wondering wtf my next job will be and this song started playing so it always reminds me of that time. This was 15 years ago back in 2006. Damn I wish I was 21 again.