Yesterday When I Was Young

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
 They way the evening breeze
 May tease a candle flame
 The thousand dreams I dreamed
 The splendid things I planned
 I always, always bulit
 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
 So many happy songs were waiting to be sung
 So many happy 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
 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
 And 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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 Roll over yesterday, when I was young