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[00:13.87]Yesterday when I was young
[00:18.83]the taste of life was sweet as rain upon my tongue.
[00:25.28]I teased at life as if it were a foolish game,
[00:31.26]the way the evening breeze may tease a candle flame.
[00:36.87]The thousand dreams I dreamed, the splendid things I planned
[00:43.43]I always built alas on weak and shifting sand.
[00:50.47]I lived by night and shunned the naked light of the day
[00:56.24]and only now I see how the years ran away.
[01:03.10]Yesterday when I was young
[01:08.86]so many drinking songs were waiting to be sung,
[01:15.13]so many wayward pleasures lay in store for me
[01:21.22]and so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see.
[01:27.27]I ran so fast that time and youth at last ran out,
[01:33.43]I never stopped to think what life was all about
[01:40.07]and every conversation I can now recall
[01:46.68]concerned itself with me and nothing else at all.
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[01:55.39]Yesterday the moon was blue
[02:00.62]And every crazy day brought something new to do
[02:06.71]I used my magic age as if it were a wand
[02:12.65]And never saw the waste and emptiness beyond
[02:18.61]The game of love I played with arrogance and pride
[02:25.19]And every flame I lit too quickly, quickly died
[02:31.90]The friends I made all seemed somehow to drift away
[02:37.86]And only I am left on stage to end the play
[02:44.09]There are so many songs in me that won't be sung,
[02:50.65]I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue.
[02:57.24]The time has come for me to pay for yesterday
[03:06.42]when I was young.
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