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


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When You Were Young Lyrics as written by Dave Brent Keuning Brandon Flowers

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    I think that this song is about a girl dreaming of this guy or her 'Saviour' who she will fall in love with and he will love her back and they'll live happily ever after. And she finds this guy, but he's not really the one, but he's good enough, 'he doesn't look a thing like Jesus [i.e he's not her saviour], but he talks like a gentleman.' And at the end she just accepts him, 'he doesn't look a thing like Jesus/ But more that you'll ever know.

    mad-monkey-42on January 25, 2007   Link

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