Yesterday When I Was Young (Hier encore)

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
 Yesterday
 When I was young
 So many drinking-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
 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