Yesterday, When I Was Young - 1994 Remaster

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 lovely 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
 Yesterday, when I was young
 So many lovely 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
 Yesterday, when I was young
 So many lovely 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
 Yesterday, when I was young
 So many lovely songs were waiting to be sung
 So many wayward pleasures...