Yesterday When I Was Young

[00:17.88] Yesterday, when I was young
[00:21.66] The taste of life was sweet
[00:24.03] As rain upon my tongue
[00:28.13] I teased at life as if
[00:31.34] It were a foolish game
[00:34.28] The way an evening breeze
[00:36.45] May tease a candle flame
[00:39.90] The thousand dreams I dreamed
[00:41.98] The splendid things I planned
[00:45.43] I always built a loss
[00:48.96] On weak and shifting sand
[00:51.10] I lived by night and shunned
[00:56.47] The naked light of day
[00:59.58] And only now I see
[01:02.01] How the years run away
[01:04.57] ...
[01:05.80] Yesterday, when I was young
[01:10.36] So many happy songs
[01:13.34] Were waiting to be sung
[01:17.75] so many wild pleasures
[01:21.47] Lay in store for me
[01:23.67] And so much pain
[01:25.34] My dazzled eyes refused to see
[01:28.87] I ran so fast that time
[01:31.97] And me at last ran out
[01:34.78] I never stopped to think
[01:38.33] What life was all about
[01:41.63] And every conversation
[01:45.18] I can now recall
[01:47.26] Concerns itself with me
[01:50.02] And nothing else at all
[01:54.27] ...
[02:18.93] Yesterday, the moon was blue
[02:24.26] And every crazy day
[02:27.40] Brought something new to do
[02:30.68] I used my magic age
[02:34.03] As if it were a wand
[02:37.16] And never saw or noticed
[02:40.47] The emptiness beyond
[02:43.81] The game of love I played
[02:45.59] With arrogance and pride
[02:50.03] And every flame I lit
[02:52.42] so quickly, quickly died
[02:54.97] The friends I made all seemed
[02:58.62] Somehow to drift away
[03:01.03] And only I am left
[03:03.74] On stage to end the play
[03:06.83] There are so many songs in me
[03:11.39] That won't be sung
[03:14.29] I feel the bitter taste
[03:16.49] Of tears upon my tongue
[03:19.66] The time has come for me
[03:22.06] To pay for yesterday
[03:26.13] When I was young...
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