Golden Love Songs LOVE SONGS OF YESTERDAY
★ 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 shunned the naked light of day And only now I see how the years have run away
Yesterday, when I was young So many happy songs were waiting to be sung
So many wild 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 was all about
Every conversation that I can now recall Concerned itself with 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 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 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
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★ 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 shunned the naked light of day
And only now I see how the years have run away