Yesterday when i was young - Bobby Bare

Yesterday when I was young

The taste of life was sweet like 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 always built to last 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 ran away

Yesterday when I was young so many happy songs

That waited to be sung

So many happy 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

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 to 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

Over last day when I was young