Yesterday, when I was young

 

 

 

 

Yesterday, when I was young    Seem the love I've known has always been The most destructive kind Guess that's why now I feel so old before my time Yesterday, When I Was Young The taste of life was sweet as rain upon my tongue I teased at life as if it were a foolish game The way the evening breeze may tease a candle flame The thousand dreams I dreamed The splendid things I planned I always built, alas, on weak and shifting sand I lived by night and shunned the naked light of day And only now I see how the years ran away Yesterday, When I Was Young So many happy songs were waiting to be sung So many way-ward pleasures lay in store for me And so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see I ran so fast that time and youth at last ran out I never stopped to think what life was all about And every conversation I can now recall Concerned itself with me, and nothing else at all Yesterday the moon was blue And every crazy day brought something new to do I used my magic age as if it were a and And never saw the waste and emptiness beyond The game of love I played With arrogance and pride and every flame I lit too quickly, quickly died The friends I made all seemed somehow to drift away And only I left on stage to end the way There are so many songs in me that won’t be sung I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue The time has come for me to pay for Yesterday, When I Was Young