The Killers: When you were young

"When You Were Young" is a song written and performed by 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, 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" and "Thunder Road" . 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, 2006.

The song appears in the video games Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, SingStar Amped, and Rock Band. The single's B-Side "All the Pretty Faces" appears in Guitar Hero 5.
In 2009 it was voted at Number 37 in UK radio station XFM's "100 Greatest Songs of All Time".

The Killers are an American rock band from Las Vegas, Nevada, formed in 2002. The band consists of Brandon Flowers (vocals,keyboards), Dave Keuning (guitar, vocals), Mark Stoermer (bass guitar, vocals) and Ronnie Vannucci Jr. (drums, percussion).

Part of the post-punk revival movement, The Killers draw their influences from music styles of the 1980s. The group's debut album, Hot Fuss (2004) brought the band mainstream success. The Killers' second album, Sam's Town, was released in 2006, and compilation album Sawdust containing B-sides, rarities, and new material, was released in 2007. Their third studio album, Day & Age, produced by Stuart Price, was released in 2008.

The band has sold over 5 million albums in the United States, over 4.5 million albums in the United Kingdom and over 15 million worldwide.

You sit there in your heartache 

Waiting on some beautiful boy 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 gentleman 

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 gentleman 

Like you imagined when you were young 

(He talks like a gentlemen, like you imagined when) 

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

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