Yesterday when I was young The taste of life was sweet like rain upon my tongue I teased at life as if it were a foolish game The way an evening breeze would tease a candle flame The thousand dreams I dreamed The splendid things I planned I always built to last on weekend shifting sand I lived by night and shinned the naked light of day And only now I see how the years have run away
Yesterday when I was young There were so many songs that waited to be sung So many wild pleasures lay in store for me And so musch pain my dazzled eyes refused to see
I ran so fast in time and youth at last ran out I never stopped to think what life was all about And every conversation that 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 And I used my magic age as if it were a wand And ever saw all the waste and emptiness beyond
The game of love I played with arrogance and pride And every flame I lit so quickly , quickly died The friends I made off seem somehow to drife away And only I'm left on stage to end the play (chorus)
There are so many song in me that won't be sung 'Cause I feel the vitter taste of tears upon my tongue And the time has come for me To pay for yesterday when I was young
Yesterday when I was young The taste of life was sweet like rain upon my tongue I teased at life as if it were a foolish game The way an evening breeze would tease a candle flame The thousand dreams I dreamed The splendid things I planned I always built to last on weekend shifting sand I lived by night and shinned the naked light of day And only now I see how the years have run away
Yesterday when I was young There were so many songs that waited to be sung So many wild pleasures lay in store for me And so musch pain my dazzled eyes refused to see
I ran so fast in time and youth at last ran out I never stopped to think what life was all about And every conversation that 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 And I used my magic age as if it were a wand And ever saw all the waste and emptiness beyond
The game of love I played with arrogance and pride And every flame I lit so quickly , quickly died The friends I made off seem somehow to drife away And only I'm left on stage to end the play (chorus)
There are so many song in me that won't be sung 'Cause I feel the vitter taste of tears upon my tongue And the time has come for me To pay for yesterday when I was young
