Yesterday, When I Was Young (Hier encore)

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've 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 drinking songs

Were waiting to be sung

So many wayward 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

Life was all about

And every conversation

I can now recall

Concerned itself with me

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 one

And never saw the waste

An emptiness, behold

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 am 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

When I was young