Yesterday When I Was Young
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 an 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 I shunned the naked light of day
And only now I see
How the years have ran away
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
I never saw the waste
And the emptiness beyond
The game of love I played
With arrogance and pride
And every flame I lit
To quickly, quickly died
The friends I made
All seem 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
The taste of life was sweet
As rain upon my tongue
I teased at life
As if It were a foolish game
The way an 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 I shunned the naked light of day
And only now I see
How the years have ran away
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
I never saw the waste
And the emptiness beyond
The game of love I played
With arrogance and pride
And every flame I lit
To quickly, quickly died
The friends I made
All seem 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
Credits
Writer(s): Charles Aznavour, Herbert Kretzmer
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