This is the version Billie Joe sings at the end of the American Idiot Broadway Cast Album.
When It's Time
Billie Joe Armstrong
G D/F#
Words get trapped in my mind,
Em C
Sorry I don't take the time to feel the way I do.
G D
Cause the first day you came into my life,
G D
The time ticks around you
G D/F#
But then I need your voice
Em C
As the key to unlock all the love that's trapped in me
G D G G7
So tell me when it's time to say I love you.
C G
All I want is you to understand, that
D G G/A G/B
when I take your hand, it's 'cause I want to.
C G
We are all born in a world of doubt
D
But there's no doubt, I figured out
C G/B G/A
I love you.
Guitar Solo
G D/F# Em
C G/B D
G D/F# Em
C G/B D
C G
All I want is you to understand, that
D G G/A G/B
when I take your hand, it's 'cause I want to.
C G
We are all born in a world of doubt
D
But there's no doubt, I figured out
C G/B G/A
I love you.
G D/F#
I feel lonely for
Em C
All the losers that will never take the time to say,
G D/F# D
What was really on their mind instead
G G/D D
They just hide away
G D/F#
Yet they'll never have
Em C
someone like you to guide them and help along the way.
G D G
Or tell them when it's time to say I love you.
G D C G/B D/A G
So tell me when it's time to say I love you.