Yesterday When I Was Young

Song Yesterday When I Was Young
Artist Vikki Carr
Album The Ways To Love a Man/Nashville By Carr

Lyrics

[00:13.87] Yesterday when I was young
[00:21.04] the taste of life was sweet as rain upon my tongue.
[00:27.64] I teased at life as if it were a foolish g ame,
[00:34.49] the way the evening breeze may tease a candle fl ame.
[00:41.69] The thousand dreams I dreamed, the splendid things I planned
[00:47.99] I always built alas on weak and shifting sand.
[00:55.30] I lived by night and shunned the naked light of the day
[01:05.99] and only now I see how the years ran away.
[01:09.19] Yesterday when I was young
[01:16.41] so many drinking songs were waiting to be sung,
[01:22.62] so many wayward pleasures lay in store for me
[01:30.14] and so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see.
[01:36.71] I ran so fast that time and youth at last ran out,
[01:46.64] I never stopped to think what life was all about
[01:49.87] and every conversation I can now recall
[01:56.78] concerned itself with me and nothing else at all.
[02:32.28] There are so many songs in me that won't be sung,
[02:39.25] I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue.
[02:45.98] The time has come for me to pay for yesterday when I was young.