Yesterday When I Was Young Lyrics - Charles Aznavour

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 drinking song were waiting to be sung, 

So many wayward pleasures laid 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, 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 

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. 

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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.