Yesterday wehn I was young
The taste of life was sweet
As rain ypon my tounge
I played at life as if
It were a foolish game
The way the evening breeze
Plays with a candle flame
The thousand dreams I dreamed
The splendid things I planned
I always built to last
On weak and shifting sands
I lived by night
Declined the naked light of day
only now I see
how the years that ran away
Yesterday when I was young
So many crazy SONGs
Were waiting to be SONG
So many crazy times
lay in store for me
And so much pain inside
My heart 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
Has all to do with me
And nothing else at all
Yesterday the moon was blue
And every crazy dat
Brought something new to do
I used my magic age
As if it were a wand
And never say the waste
And emptiness beyond
The games of love I played
With arrogance and pride
And every flame I lit
So 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