Yesterday When I Was Young

It seems the love I've known has always been
 The most destructive kind
 I guess that's why now I feel so old
 Before my time
 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 to last on weak and shifting sand
 I lived by night and shunned the naked light of the day
 And only now I see how the years ran away
 Yesterday when I was young
 So many happy songs were waiting to be sung
 So many wild 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
 
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 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 the 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