Yesterday When I Was Young

Song Yesterday When I Was Young
Artist Lena Martell
Album One Day At A Time: The Ultimate Collection

Lyrics

[00:00.00] Yesterday when I was young
[00:05.89] the taste of life was sweet as rain upon my tongue.
[00:12.19] I teased at life as if it were a foolish game,
[00:18.26] the way the evening breeze may tease a candle flame.
[00:24.05] The thousand dreams I dreamed,
[00:27.19] the splendid things I planned
[00:30.19] I always built to last on weak and shifting sand.
[00:36.51] I lived by night and shunned the naked light of the day
[00:42.22] and only now I see how the years ran away.
[00:48.24] Yesterday when I was young
[00:53.56] There were so many songs were waiting to be sung,
[01:00.00] so many wayward pleasures lay in store for me
[01:05.64] and so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see.
[01:11.68] I ran so fast that time and youth at last ran out,
[01:17.71] I never stopped to think what life was all about
[01:23.13] and every conversation I can now recall
[01:29.25] concerned itself with me and nothing else at all.
[01:35.37]
[01:58.80] esterday, the moon was blue,
[02:04.00] nd every crazy day, brought something new to do,
[02:10.33] I used my magic age, as if it were a wand,
[02:15.75] And never saw the waste, and the emptiness beyond
[02:21.63] The game of love I played, with arrogance and pride,
[02:27.58] And every flame I lit, soo quickly, quickly died,
[02:33.21] The friends I made, all seemed somehow to drift away,
[02:39.36] And only I am left, on stage to end the play
[02:45.00] Yesterday when I was young
[02:50.68] so many happy songs were waiting to be sung,
[02:56.71] so many wayward pleasures lay in store for me
[03:02.56] and so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see.
[03:14.33] I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue.
[03:20.52] The time has come for me to pay for yesterday
[03:26.02] when I was young.
[17:10.00] here are so many songs in me that won't be sung