Yesterday when i was young
The taste of life was sweet
Like rain upon my tongue
I teased at life as if it were a foolish game
The way the evening breeze
May tease the 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 day
And only now i see how the years have ran away

Yesterday when i was young
So many lovely songs were waiting to be sung
So many wild pleasures that lay in store for me
And so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see
I ran so fast that time and youth at last ran out
I never stopped to think what life was all about
And every conversation that i now recall
Concerned itself with me and nothing else at all

Yesterday the moon was blue
And every crazy day brought something new to do
I used my magic age as if it were a wand
That never saw the waste and emptiness beyond
The game of love i played with arrogance and pride
And every flame i lit too quickly, quickly died
The friends i made all seemed somehow to slip away
And only now i'm left alone to end the play, yeah

yesterday when i was young
There were So many, many songs were waiting to be sung
So many wild pleasures lay in store for me
And so much pain my eyes refused to see
There are so many songs in me that won't be sung
But I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue
The time has come for me to pay for yesterday When i was young