Yesterday When I Was Young

　　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 g ame

　　The way the evening breeze may tease a candle fl ame

　　The thousand dreams I dreamed the splendid things I planned

　　I always built alas on weak and shifting sand

　　I lived by night and shunned the naked light of the day

　　And only now I see how the years ran away

　　Yesterday when I was young

　　So many drinking songs were waiting to be sung

　　So many wayward 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

　　And every conversation I can now recall

　　Concerned itself with me and nothing else at all

　　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