Yesterday, When I Was Young

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 an evening breeze would tease a 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 run away
 Yesterday, when I was young
 There were so many songs that waited 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
 And I never stopped to think what life was all about
 And every conversation that I can 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
 And I used my magic age as if it were a wand
 I never saw the waste and emptiness beyond
 The game of love I played with arrogance and pride
 And every flame I lit, so quickly, quickly died
 The friends I made all seemed somehow to drift away
 And only I am left on stage to end the play
 Yesterday, when I was young
 There were so many songs that waited to be sung
 So many wild pleasures that lay in store for me
 And so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see
 There are so many songs in me that won't be sung
 'Cause I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue
 And the time has come for me to pay for yesterday
 When I was young