Yesterday when i was young

Song Yesterday when i was young
Artist Bobby Bare
Album The moon was blue

Lyrics

[00:35 .30] I always always built alas on weak and shifting sand.
[00:8.30] Yesterday when I was young
[00:13.40] the taste of life was sweet as rain upon my tongue.
[00:18.30] I teased at life as if it were a foolish game,
[00:24.00] the way the evening breeze may tease a candle flame.
[00:29.50] The thousand dreams I dreamed, the splendid things I planned
[00:40.20] I lived by night and shunned the naked light of the day
[00:45.30] and only now I see how the years ran away.
[00:51.40] Yesterday when I was young
[00:56.30] so many drinking songs were waiting to be sung,
[01:02.10] so many wild pleasures lay in store for me
[01:07.00] and so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see.
[01:12.40] I ran so fast that time and youth at last ran out,
[01:18.30] I never stopped to think what life was all about
[01:23.15] and every conversation I can now recall
[01:28.40] concerned itself with me and nothing else at all.
[01:55.30] Yesterday the moon was blue
[02:00.00] and every crazy day brought something new to do.
[02:06.10] I used my magic age as if it were a wand
[02:11.10] and never saw the waste and emptiness beyond.
[02:17.00] The g ame of love I played with arrogance and pride
[02:22.30] and every flame I lit too quickly quickly died.
[02:27.30] The friedns I made all seemed somehow to drift away
[02:32.30] and only I am left on stage to end the play.
[02:38.30] There are so many songs in me that won't be sung,
[02:43.20] I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue.
[03:48:20] The time has come for me to pay for yesterday when I was young.