Yesterday When I Was Young

Yesterday when I was young
The taste of life was sweet
cs rain upon my tongue
I teased at 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 to last
On weak and shifting sand
I lived by night and shunned
The naked light of the day
cnd only now I see
How the years ran away

Yesterday when I was young
So many happy songs were waiting to be sung
So many wild pleasures
Lay in store for me
cnd so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see

I ran so fast that time
cnd youth at last ran out
I never stopped to think
What life was all about
cnd every conversation
I can now recall
Concerns itself with me
cnd nothing else at all

Yesterday the moon was blue
cnd every crazy day
Brought something new to do
I used my magic age
cs if it were a wand
cnd never saw the waste
cnd emptiness beyond

The game of love I played
With arrogance and pride
cnd every flame I lit
too quickly, quickly died
The friends I made all seemed
Somehow to drift away
cnd 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