[90:00.01]Yesterday when i was young
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[90:00.03]Yesterday When I Was Young
[90:00.04]Yesterday when I was young
[90:00.05]the taste of life was sweet as rain upon my tongue.
[90:00.06]I teased at life as if it were a foolish g ame'
[90:00.07]the way the evening breeze may tease a candle fl ame.
[90:00.08]The thousand dreams I dreamed' the splendid things I planned
[90:00.09]I always built alas on weak and shifting sand.
[90:00.10]I lived by night and shunned the naked light of the day
[90:00.11]and only now I see how the years ran away.
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[90:00.13]Yesterday when I was young
[90:00.14]so many drinking songs were waiting to be sung'
[90:00.15]so many wayward pleasures lay in store for me
[90:00.16]and so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see.
[90:00.17]I ran so fast that time and youth at last ran out'
[90:00.18]I never stopped to think what life was all about
[90:00.19]and every conversation I can now recall
[90:00.20]concerned itself with me and nothing else at all.
[90:00.21]
[90:00.22]Yesterday the moon was blue
[90:00.23]and every crazy day brought something new to do.
[90:00.24]I used my magic age as if itwere a wand
[90:00.25]and never saw the waste and emptiness beyond.
[90:00.26]The g ame of love I played with arrogance and pride
[90:00.27]and every flame I lit too quickly quickly died.
[90:00.28]The friedns I made all seemed somehow to drift away
[90:00.29]and only I am left on stage to end the play.
[90:00.30]There are so many songs in me that won't be sung'
[90:00.31]I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue.
[90:00.32]The time has come for me to pay for yesterday when I was young.