Yesterday, when I was young
The taste of life as 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 a loss
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 knew that last ran out
I never stopped thinking what life
Life was all about
And every conversation
I can now recall
Consent itself
It made 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 one
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
I feel the bitter taste of tears Upon my tongue
The time has come for me to pay
For yesterday
When I was young
When I was young
When I was young
And ever since
And ever since