[00:01.20]Yesterday, when I was young,
[00:06.90]The taste of life was sweet like rain upon my tongue,
[00:13.27]I teased the life as if it was a foolish game,
[00:19.40]The way the evening breeze would tease a candle flame
[00:25.25]The thousand dreams I dreamed, the splendid things I planned,
[00:32.42]I always built, at last, on weak and shifting sand,
[00:37.23]I lived by night and shunned the naked light of day,
[00:43.41]And only now I see how the years have ran away
[00:48.96]Yesterday, when I was young,
[00:54.74]There were so many songs that waited to be sung,
[01:00.70]So many wild pleasures that lay in store for me,
[01:06.60]And so much pain by dazzled eyes refused to see
[01:12.52]I ran so fast that time and youth at last ran out,
[01:18.63]And I never stopped to think what life was all about,
[01:24.71]And every conversation that I can recall,
[01:30.30]Concerned itself with me, and nothing else at all
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[01:59.50]Yesterday, the moon was blue,
[02:05.48]And every crazy day brought something new to do,
[02:11.16]And I used my magic age as if it were a wand,
[02:17.17]And never saw the waste and emptiness beyond
[02:22.71]The game of love I played with arrogance and pride,
[02:28.71]And every flame I lit so quickly, quickly died,
[02:34.44]The friends I made all seemed somehow to drift away,
[02:40.24]And only I am left on stage to end the play
[02:46.14]Yesterday,when I was young,
[02:52.07]There were so many songs that waited to be sung,
[02:57.98]So many wild pleasures lay in store for me,
[03:03.72]And so much pain by dazzled eyes refused to see
[03:09.49]There are so many songs in me that won't be sung
[03:15.35]Cause feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue,
[03:21.10]And the time has come for me to pay for yesterday,
[03:26.70]When I was young