Yesterday When I Was Young

Seems the love I've known has always been

the most destuctive 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 to last 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 wild 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 wand

And never saw all 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 seem

somehow to drift away

And only I'm left on stage to end the play

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