When You Were Young
The Killers · 2006
🎤 Sing along
Sing with the chorus
- When you were young
- Can we climb this mountain?
- I don't know
- Higher now than ever before
Sing it again — final chorus
- When you were young
- When you were young
- And sometimes you close your eyes
- And see the place where you used to live
Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory
Exercises
Exercise 1
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Exercise 2
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Exercise 3
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Exercise 4
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Exercise 5
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Exercise 6
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Exercise 7
Translate this line to Portuguese:
You sit there in your heartache
Exercise 8
Translate this line to Portuguese:
You play forgiveness
Exercise 9
Translate this line to Portuguese:
He doesn't look a thing like Jesus
Exercise 10
Translate this line to Portuguese:
Like you imagined
Exercise 11
Translate this line to Portuguese:
Can we climb this mountain?
Exercise 12
Choose the missing word:
You sit ? in your heartache
Exercise 13
Choose the missing word:
He ? look a thing like Jesus
Exercise 14
Choose the missing word:
Higher now than ? before
Exercise 15
Choose the missing word:
And see the ? where you used to live
Exercise 16
Choose the missing word:
You ? have to drink right now
Exercise 17
Put the words in the right order:
Exercise 18
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Exercise 19
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Exercise 20
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Exercise 21
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Exercise 22
How many times do you hear the word "young" in the whole song?
"young"
Exercise 23
How many times do you hear the word "doesn't" in the whole song?
"doesn't"
Exercise 24
Put these three lines in the order they appear in the song:
- Let's take it easy
- Waiting on some beautiful boy to
- You sit there in your heartache
Exercise 25
Who in your life would you dedicate "When You Were Young" to, and what line captures what you want to say to them?
Exercise 26
Compare "When You Were Young" with a Brazilian song you know. Do they share a theme? How do their styles differ?
Exercise 27
If you could change the ending of the story told in "When You Were Young", what would happen instead?
Exercise 28
Write the full form of each contraction:
doesn't→don't→let's→we're→you'll→
Exercise 29
The singer makes a claim or statement in this song. Do you agree with it? Use evidence from the lyrics to support your answer.
Exercise 30
If you had to summarize "When You Were Young" in one sentence to someone who has never heard it, what would you say?