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Yesterday, when I was young, |
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The taste of life was sweet like rain upon my tongue, |
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I teased the life as if it was a foolish game, |
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The way the evening breeze would tease a candle flame |
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The thousand dreams I dreamed, the splendid things I planned, |
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I always built, at last, on weak and shifting sand, |
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I lived by night and shunned the naked light of day, |
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And only now I see how the years have ran away |
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Yesterday, when I was young, |
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There were so many songs that waited to be sung, |
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So many wild pleasures that lay in store for me, |
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And so much pain by dazzled eyes refused to see |
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I ran so fast that time and youth at last ran out, |
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And I never stopped to think what life was all about, |
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And every conversation that I can recall, |
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Concerned itself with me, and nothing else at all |
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(~music~) |
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Yesterday, the moon was blue, |
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And every crazy day brought something new to do, |
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And I used my magic age as if it were a wand, |
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And never saw the waste and emptiness beyond |
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The game of love I played with arrogance and pride, |
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And every flame I lit so quickly, quickly died, |
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The friends I made all seemed somehow to drift away, |
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And only I am left on stage to end the play |
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Yesterday,when I was young, |
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There were so many songs that waited to be sung, |
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So many wild pleasures lay in store for me, |
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And so much pain by dazzled eyes refused to see |
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There are so many songs in me that won't be sung |
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Cause feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue, |
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And the time has come for me to pay for yesterday, |
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When I was young |
