This early Mötley Crüe rocker is a bitter breakup song, with lead singer Vince Neil comparing her love to a guillotine. He doesn't want to waste his youth falling in love, so he's giving her the boot.
This was the second single from Mötley Crüe's breakthrough album Shout At The Devil, following "Looks That Kill." Around this time, the band was building a following of young fans whose parents were horrified by the group, which proudly stood for womanizing, hedonism and mayhem. "Too Young To Fall In Love" contains one of their more offensive verses: Run for the hills We're both sinners and saints Not a woman, but a whore I can just taste the hate Well, now I'm killing you Watch your face turning blue This is one of the lyrics that got the attention of Tipper Gore of the PMRC, which led a campaign to get warning labels on albums with explicit lyrics; they included Mötley Crüe on their "Filthy Fifteen" list for another song on the album, "Bastard." Crüe wore it as a badge of honor; there is no doubt the PMRC helped expose them to a much wider audience and sell a lot more albums, just with stickers on them.
Bass player Nikki Sixx wrote this song. He often cited it as one of his favorites, praising Mick Mars' blistering guitar solo on the track.
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