Yesterday When I Was Young

<br>Spoken : Somehow, it seems the love I knew was always the most destructive kind<br> <br>Yesterday when I was young<br>The taste of life was sweet<br>As rain upon my tongue<br>I teased at life as if it were a foolish game<br>The way the evening breeze<br>May tease the candle flame<br> <br>The thousand dreams I dreamed<br>The splendid things I planned<br>I always built to last on weak and shifting sand<br>I lived by night and shunned the naked light of day<br>And only now I see how the time ran away<br> <br>Yesterday when I was young<br>So many lovely songs were waiting to be sung<br>So many wild pleasures lay in store for me<br>And so much pain my eyes refused to see<br>I ran so fast that time and youth at last ran out<br>I never stopped to think what life was all about<br>And every conversation that I can now recall<br>Concerned itself with me and nothing else at all<br> <br>The game of love I played with arrogance and pride<br>And every flame I lit too quickly, quickly died<br>The friends I made all somehow seemed to slip away<br>And only now I`m left alone to end the play, yeah<br> <br>Oh, yesterday when I was young<br>So many, many songs were waiting to be sung<br>So many wild pleasures lay in store for me<br>And so much pain my eyes refused to see<br>There are so many songs in me that won`t be sung<br>I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue<br>The time has come for me to pay for yesterday<br>When I was young