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