10 Best Songs About Becoming An Adult

8. When You Were Young - The Killers

After releasing Hot Fuss, the Killers really had nowhere else to go but up. With over half of the track listing reaching the charts, the band had fashioned modern classics that would become so of the most celebrated rock songs of the new millennium. They could have just done it all over again, but "When You Were Young" threw us a bit of a curveball.

Inspired by the likes of Bruce Springsteen, Brandon Flowers used the band's next single to meditate on the idea of love lasting through life. When talking to a girl, Brandon tells her that even though the man of her dreams may come to sweep her off her feet one day, it might not be in the form that she wants him to be. Yeah, he might not be the savior you're looking for, but if he talks like a gentleman, that's all you need.

In calling back to the girl's youth, Flowers takes the lessons we learn as kids and redirects them into the current situation to help guide this girl into the rest of her life. The Killers may have been pulling from the classic rock playbook on this outing, but the message behind this song is likely to never go out of style.