Yesterday When I Was Young lyrics

[Chorus]
Yesterday, when I was young
So many happy songs were waiting to be sung
So many wayward pleasures lay in store for me
And so much [?] my dazzled eyes refused to see

[Verse 1]
Yesterday, when I was young
The taste of life was sweet as rained upon my tongue
I teased at life as if it were a foolish game
The way the evening breeze may tease a candle flame

[Verse 2]
The thousand dreams I dreamed, thе splendid things I planned
I always build to last on weak and shifting sands
I livеd by night and shunned the naked light of day
And only now I see how it is ran away

[Chorus]
Yesterday, when I was young
So many happy songs were waiting to be sung
So many wayward pleasures lay in store for me
And so much [?] my dazzled eyes refused to see

[Verse 3]
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
[Instrumental Break]

[Chorus]
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

[Verse 4]
The game of love I played with arrogance and pride
And every flame I lit too quickly, quickly died
The friends I've made all seems somehow to drift away
And only now I am left on stage to end the play

[Verse 5]
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