When You're Young And In Love chords by Stephin Merritt

Verse 1:

        C                        G
You can teeter on the brink of a precipice

Am                 Em
Ov'r an infinitely deep abyss

F                    C
And somehow not even notice this

            C            G
When you're young and in love

        C                   G
You can grow a little older every day

Am                       Em
Watch your stupid life wasting away

F                     C
Somehow everything is a-ok

            C            G
When you're young and in love


Bridge:

                F
But when you're not

             C
The poisoned fangs of time

  G
Become quite plain

            F
When you're not

          C
It almost seems a crime

Dm          G
Not to go insane


Verse 2:

        C                              G
You can whirl and twirl on the world's carousel

Am                         Em
Hurdle round and round and feel quite well

F                  C
Never even knowing you're in hell

            C            G
When you're young and in love

        C                          G
You can know the world has nothing left to give

Am                      Em
Be condemned to die, content to live

F                   C
And be happy if and only if

       C            G
You're young and in love


Solo:
C G Am Em F C G



Bridge:

                F
But when you're not

             C
The poisoned fangs of time

  G
Become quite plain

            F
When you're not

          C
It almost seems a crime

Dm          G
Not to go insane


Verse 3:

        C                        G
You can teeter on the brink of a precipice (a precipice)

Am                 Em
Ov'r an infinitely deep abyss (a deep abyss)

F                    C
And somehow not even notice this

            C            G
When you're young and in love

        C                   G
You can grow a little older every day (old, every day)

Am                       Em
Watch your stupid life wasting away (wasting away)

F                     C
Somehow everything is a-ok

            C            G
When you're young and in love