Seems the love I've known has always been
the most destuctive kind
Guess that's why now
I feel so old before my time
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 game
The way the evening breeze
may tease a candle flame
The thousand dreams I dreamed
The splendid things I planned
I always built to last on weak and shifting sand
I lived by night and shunned the naked light of 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 wild 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 it were a wand
And never saw all 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 seem
somehow to drift away
And only I'm 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
编辑于2023/05/12更新