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Viewing Lyrics for Yesterday When I Was Young:
| | | Artist: | Shirley Bassey |
| | Album: | Non Album Tracks | | Track: | Yesterday When I Was Young | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 29 | | | | Lyrics: | Yesterday When I Was Young
Herbert Kretzmer
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 happy 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 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 | | | |
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