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Seems the love I've known has always been |
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the most destuctive kind |
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Guess that's why now |
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I feel so old before my time |
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Yesterday when I was young |
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The taste of life was sweet |
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as rain upon my tongue |
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I teased at life |
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as if it were a foolish game |
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The way the evening breeze |
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may tease a candle flame |
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The thousand dreams I dreamed |
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The splendid things I planned |
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I always built to last on weak and shifting sand |
| [00:52] |
I lived by night and shunned the naked light of day |
| [00:57] |
And only now I see how the years ran away |
| [01:03] |
Yesterday when I was young |
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So many happy songs were waiting to be sung |
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So many wild pleasures lay in store for me |
| [01:18] |
And so much pain |
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my dazzled eyes refused to see |
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I ran so fast that time |
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and youth at last ran out |
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I never stopped to think |
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what life was all about |
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And every conversation I can now recall |
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Concerned itself with me and nothing else at all |
| [02:07] |
Yesterday the moon was blue |
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And every crazy day |
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brought something new to do |
| [02:17] |
I used my magic age as if it were a wand |
| [02:22] |
And never saw all the waste and emptiness beyond |
| [02:28] |
The game of love I played |
| [02:30] |
with arrogance and pride |
| [02:33] |
And every flame I lit too quickly quickly died |
| [02:38] |
The friends I made all seem |
| [02:41] |
somehow to drift away |
| [02:43] |
And only I'm left on stage to end the play |
| [02:48] |
There are so many songs in me that won't be sung |
| [02:54] |
I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue |
| [02:59] |
The time has come for me |
| [03:01] |
To pay for yesterday |
| [03:05] |
When I was young |