[Intro]
             [Fm] [G]
When we were young

[Verse 1]
          [Cm]
Well, the first 21  
       [G]
It's a criminal ride  
    [A#]
Whatever you've done  
        [F]
You can get out alive  
    [Cm]
The first 21  
      [G]
Is it Heaven or Hell?  
    [A#]
But who really cares  
        [F]
We were under a spell  
    [Cm]
The first 21  
          [G]
And those hot summer nights  
        [A#]
We were high as the stars  
      [F]
Under big city lights  

[Chorus 1]
(When we were young)  
                 [G#]
But when we were young  
                               [D#]
We learned how to tell our own lies  
                         [G]
Telling ourselves it was paradise  
                      [Cm]
And sometimes we even believed it  
             [G#]
When we were young  
                                [D#]
Was like nothing that we'd ever seen  
                          [G]
Pushing ourselves to have bigger dreams  
                      [Cm]
And sometimes we even believed it  
             [Fm] [G]
When we were young  

[Interlude]
[Cm] [G] [A#] [F]

[Verse 2]
          [Cm]
The first 21  
      [G]
Was a coming of age  
         [A#]
We would take on the world  
           [F]
Like we're turning a page  
    [Cm]
The first 21  
     [G]
It's not what you think  
[A#]
Sometimes you fly  
    [F]
But sometimes you sink  

[Chorus 2]
(When we were young)  
                 [G#]
But when we were young  
                               [D#]
We learned how to tell our own lies  
                         [G]
Telling ourselves it was paradise  
                      [Cm]
And sometimes we even believed it  
             [G#]
When we were young  
                                [D#]
Was like nothing that we'd ever seen  
                          [G]
Pushing ourselves to have bigger dreams  
                      [Cm]
And sometimes we even believed it  
             [Fm] [G]
When we were young  

[Solo]
[Cm] [G#] [A#] [G]  
[Cm] [G#] [A#] [G]  

[Chorus 3]
                 [G#]
But when we were young  
                               [D#]
We learned how to tell our own lies  
                         [G]
Telling ourselves it was paradise  
                      [Cm]
And sometimes we even believed it  
             [G#]
When we were young  
                                [D#]
Was like nothing that we'd ever seen  
                          [G]
Pushing ourselves to have bigger dreams  
                      [Cm]
And sometimes we even believed it  
             [G#]    [D#]
When we were young  
             [G]     [Cm]
When we were young  
             [G#]    [D#]
When we were young  
             [G]     [Cm]
When we were young  
             [Fm] [G]
When we were young  
                    [Cm] [G#] [G]
We were just twenty-one  
[Cm]  [G#]       [G]  [Cm]
When we were young