Yesterday when I was young Lyrics

Yesterday when I was young The taste of life was sweet as rain upon my tongue.

I played at life as if it were a foolish game The way the evening breeze plays

with a candle flame.

The thousand dreams I dreamed, the splendid things I planned I always built to

last on weak and shifting sands I lived by night, declined the naked light of

day And only now I see the years that ran away

Yesterday when I was young So many crazy songs were waiting to be sung So many

crazy times that lay in store for me And so much pain inside, my heart 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 that I can now recall Had all

to do 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 the waste and emptiness

beyond

The games of love I played with arrogance and pride And every flame I lit, so

quickly quickly died The friends I made all seemed somehow to drift away And

only I am left on stage to end the play

Yesterday when I was young