Yesterday When I Was Young Lyrics - Andy Williams

Yesterday when I was young, 

The taste of life was sweet as rain upon my tongue, 

I teased at life as if it were a foolish game, 

The way the evening breeze may tease a candle flame; 

The thousand dreams I dreamed, 

The splendid things I planned 

I always built, alas, 

on weak and shifting sand; 

I lived by night and shunned the naked light of day 

And only now I see how the years ran away. 

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* Yesterday, when I was young, 

So many happy songs were waiting to be sung, 

So many wayward pleasures 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 I can now recall concerned itself with me, and nothing else at all. 

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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, 

and 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 drift away 

And only I am left on stage to end the play. 

There are so many songs in me that won't be sung, 

I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue, 

The time has come for me to pay for Yesterday 

When I was Young. 

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