Yesterday When I Was Young

　　Yesterday when I was young

　　The taste of life was sweet

　　As rain upon my tongue

　　I played at life as if

　　It were a foolish game

　　The way the evening breeze

　　Plays with a candle flame

　　The thousand dreams I dreamed

　　The splendid things I planned

　　I always built to last

　　On weak and shifting sands

　　I lived by night

　　Declined the naked light of day

　　And only now I see

　　The years that ran away

　　Yesterday when I was young

　　So many crazy songs

　　Were waiting to be sung

　　So many crazy times

　　That lay in store for me

　　And so much pain inside

　　My heart 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

　　That I can now recall

　　Has all to do 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 games of love I played

　　With arrogance and pride

　　And every flame I lit

　　So quickly quickly died

　　The friends I made all seemed

　　Somehow to drift away

　　And only I am left

　　On stage to end the play

　　Yesterday when I was young

　　Yesterday when I was young