Songfacts®:

• 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.
• MTV was key to exposing the band to their core audience, so their record label gave them a big budget for music videos. The clip for "Too Young To Fall In Love" was directed by Martin Kahan, who also did the Kiss video for "Lick It Up." In a send-up of kung-fu movies, it finds the band in China (although it was shot in New York City), where they defeat some bad guys to liberate a young girl, only to decided she's not worth it and leave without her.