Yesterday
When I was young
The taste of life was sweet
As rain upon my tongue
I teased that 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 a lass
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 lovely songs
Were waiting to be sung
So many wayward pleasures
Lay in store for me
And so much pain my dazzled eyes
Revealed to me
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
I ran so fast that time



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 game of love I played
With arrogance and pride
And every flame I lit
I played with arrogance and pride
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
When I was young
Ooh
So young