When We Were Young

WHEN WE WERE YOUNG Words and Music by ADELE ADKINS and TOBIAS JESSO JR.

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to the way you move.

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’cause you feel like

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you’re like a dream come

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ment me

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song; song;

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of when

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young.

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it

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were young,

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when we

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were young.)

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hard

to

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’ry

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back

to when

win

me

you were there,

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to when you

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still care.

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we were

young. (When we

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were young,

when we

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were young,

when

we

were young.)

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to graph you in

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be

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be fore

we re

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that we might

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of

get ting

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rest

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less.

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mad

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were young.

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