Yesterday When I Was Young

Song Yesterday When I Was Young
Artist Roy Clark
Album Woodstock Generation

Lyrics

[00:05] Seems the love I've known has always been
[00:09] the most destuctive kind
[00:11] Guess that's why now
[00:14] I feel so old before my time
[00:20] Yesterday when I was young
[00:25] The taste of life was sweet
[00:28] as rain upon my tongue
[00:30] I teased at life
[00:32] as if it were a foolish game
[00:36] The way the evening breeze
[00:39] may tease a candle flame
[00:41] The thousand dreams I dreamed
[00:44] The splendid things I planned
[00:47] I always built to last on weak and shifting sand
[00:52] I lived by night and shunned the naked light of day
[00:57] And only now I see how the years ran away
[01:03] Yesterday when I was young
[01:08] So many happy songs were waiting to be sung
[01:13] So many wild pleasures lay in store for me
[01:18] And so much pain
[01:20] my dazzled eyes refused to see
[01:24] I ran so fast that time
[01:26] and youth at last ran out
[01:29] I never stopped to think
[01:31] what life was all about
[01:34] And every conversation I can now recall
[01:40] Concerned itself with me and nothing else at all
[02:07] Yesterday the moon was blue
[02:12] And every crazy day
[02:14] brought something new to do
[02:17] I used my magic age as if it were a wand
[02:22] And never saw all the waste and emptiness beyond
[02:28] The game of love I played
[02:30] with arrogance and pride
[02:33] And every flame I lit too quickly quickly died
[02:38] The friends I made all seem
[02:41] somehow to drift away
[02:43] And only I'm left on stage to end the play
[02:48] There are so many songs in me that won't be sung
[02:54] I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue
[02:59] The time has come for me
[03:01] To pay for yesterday
[03:05] When I was young