The Killers Open Up About Writing ‘When You Were Young’ | Song Exploder | Netflix

The Killers and producers Flood and Alan Moulder discuss how they collaborated to write the iconic track, When You Were Young, for their second studio album, Sam’s Town (2006). Interviewed by Hrishikesh Hirway of hit podcast and Netflix series, Song Exploder, they deep-dive into how they recorded the bass line, wrote the lyrics and which stems didn’t make it into the final mix. Song Exploder is now streaming on Netflix. 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