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yesterday when i was young |
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the taste of life was sweet as rain upon my tongue. |
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i teased at life as if it were a foolish game, |
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the way the evening breeze may 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 alas on weak and shifting sand. |
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i lived by night and shunned the naked light of the day |
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and only now i see how the years ran away. |
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yesterday when i was young |
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so many drinking songs were waiting to be sung, |
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so many wayward pleasures lay in store for me |
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and so much pain my 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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i never stopped to think what life was all about |
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and every conversation i can now recall |
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concerned itself with me and nothing else at all. |
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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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i used my magic age as if itwere 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 too quickly quickly died. |
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the friedns 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. |
