Yesterday When I Was Young lyrics

Artist  : Roy Clark 
Song : 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 g ame,
the way
the evening breeze may tease a candle fl
ame.
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 the day
and
only now I see how the years ran
away.

Yesterday when I was young
so
many drinking 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
itwere a wand
and never saw the waste and
emptiness beyond.
The g ame of love I played
with arrogance and pride
and every flame I lit
too quickly quickly died.
The friedns 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.