Talk:When You Were Young

message: I've removed the sentence "The song has already been seen as the Killers' best work yet, Rolling Stone claiming 'it gets better with every listen.'" The first part of this sentence is simply opinion, not fact. Chris25 09:38, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Almost all of the "information" in it is politically charged and when listening to the song, hardly makes any sense.  It seems to be a story about a relationship, extractign politics out of it is digging too deep.  I think it should get taken out, if taht is all there is Vohod 23:02, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I second this. Vjasper 19:45, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Interpretation" 

message: This is the original description, which I created.
The song is about a girl who has fallen in love with a boy, and who expects the boy to take care of her psychological faults. The boy is polite and offers her protection, which causes her to associate him with a sort of "knight in shining armor" character that she used to envision when she was young (the main chorus of the song being "He doesn't look a thing like Jesus, but he talks like a gentleman, like you imagined, when you were young").
...and the new description...
The song is about a girl who has envisioned the perfect guy(tall, dark, and handsome) to save her from all the bad habits she had possessed in the past. "You sit there in your heartache, waiting on some beautiful boy to save you from your old ways". When she does meet him however, he doesn't look anything like perfection or a savior of her "old ways"(Jesus is a savior in religous terms). "He doesn't look a thing like Jesus, But he talks like a gentlemen, Like you imagined when you were young". She finds out that she didn't expect to fall in love with this guy who looks nothing like the person she imagined when she was young. But he treats her right and fulfills all her needs acting like her "gentlemen." But she's knows its not going to be easy to change. "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". She knows she's been a shallow person but it's human nature to act that way sometimes. "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". She is trying to accept the fact that he's not her perfect man, but she'll never know how much he really is. "He doesn't look a thing like Jesus, But more than you'll ever know".
My main complaint is the fact that there is no part of the song that suggests that the person singing is this boy who is talked about. I would like it if people could add their comments and any additions to either text. I would like to actually discuss which we should use and what should be changed before I actually change anything.
EDIT: Sorry, I forgot to log in & sign.Vjasper 16:31, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Description Changes 

message: Did Brandon Flowers really say that the album was "heavily influenced" by Bruce Springsteen? I read in Newsweek (October 16th) in which Brandon was interviewed (page 81). 
Your newfound love of Springsteen's music's been overhyped.
I feel kind of bad that his name has been attached to us, because what if he doesn't like it? All I did was tell a journalist that's what I was listening to. The album doesn't sound like "Born to Run." People get brainwashed into thinking that's what it sounds like because of what they've read.
To me, that doesn't sound like he was "heavily influenced" by Springsteen, but rather, it's just what he was listening to at the time. Skin Crawl 17:29, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bruce Springsteen? 

message: I heard many things about them, and I even heard that the Lyric of "When we were young" played or readed backward were becomming satanic Lyrics... Is that true? --INeedMoreInfo 18:30, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You can take practically anything, play it backwards, and listen to it for a long time and you'll be able to hear something. Somebody with a grudge against The Killers probably listened to it until he found something that almost sounds like something satanic if you're listening for it. There nothing substantial, from what I've seen. As I've stated before, many people believe that one of the people in the song is the devil, however that's neither here nor there. Vjasper 22:29, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  When you were young - Satanic? 

message: The first paragraph states the single was release in October 2006, the right-hand side panel says 18 September 2006. One (or both) of these must be wrong.Julianhall 19:16, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Release Date 

message: DSDS is American idol of Germany and the song was a flop in germany
but then a contestant there performed it and it reached # 44 on the german charts  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:908:191:5FA0:5D2D:B3F5:51C2:1D02 (talk) 11:37, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  success in germany due to DSDS  

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