Yesterday, When I Was Young歌词

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[00:05.34]Roy Clark
[00:06.01]Miscellaneous
[00:06.43]Yesterday, When I Was Young
[00:11.86]Yesterday When I Was Young
[00:17.67]Herbert Kretzmer
[00:20.33]Yesterday when I was young
[00:25.58]the taste of life was sweet as rain upon my tongue.
[00:31.07]I teased at life as if it were a foolish g ame,
[00:36.52]the way the evening breeze may tease a candle fl ame.
[00:42.04]The thousand dreams I dreamed, the splendid things I planned
[00:47.72]I always built alas on weak and shifting sand.
[00:53.18]I lived by night and shunned the naked light of the day
[00:58.34]and only now I see how the years ran away.
[01:04.09]Yesterday when I was young
[01:09.05]so many drinking songs were waiting to be sung,
[01:14.51]so many wayward pleasures lay in store for me
[01:19.88]and so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see.
[01:25.16]I ran so fast that time and youth at last ran out,
[01:30.53]I never stopped to think what life was all about
[01:35.90]and every conversation I can now recall
[01:41.18]concerned itself with me and nothing else at all.
[02:08.46]Yesterday the moon was blue
[02:13.71]and every crazy day brought something new to do.
[02:19.02]I used my magic age as if itwere a wand
[02:24.45]and never saw the waste and emptiness beyond.
[02:29.79]The g ame of love I played with arrogance and pride
[02:35.10]and every flame I lit too quickly quickly died.
[02:40.29]The friedns I made all seemed somehow to drift away
[02:45.51]and only I am left on stage to end the play.
[02:50.76]There are so many songs in me that won't be sung,
[02:56.22]I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue.
[03:01.32]The time has come for me to pay for yesterday when I was young.