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LyricsTrack 5

When You Were Young

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46

Words

248

Album Tracks

9

Verse 1

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

Chorus 1

He doesn't look a thing like Jesus

But he talks like a gentleman

Like you imagined

When you were young

Verse 2

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

Chorus 2

We're burning down the highway skyline

On the back of a hurricane that started turnin'

When you were young

When you were young

Interlude

And sometimes you close your eyes

And see the place where you used to live

When you were young

Bridge

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

Verse 1

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

Chorus 1

He doesn't look a thing like Jesus

But he talks like a gentleman

Like you imagined

When you were young

(Talks like a gentleman

Like you imagined when)

When you were young

Outro

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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