Yesterday When I Was Young

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Yesterday when I was young
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the taste of life was sweet as rain
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 upon my tongue
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I teased at life as if it were a 
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foolish game
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the way the evening breeze may tease
 a candle flame

[Verse]
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The thousand dreams I dreamed, the 
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splendid things I planned
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I always built alas on weak and 
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shifting sand
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I lived by night and shunned the 
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naked light of the day
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and only now I see how the years ran
 away

[Chorus]
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Yesterday when I was young
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so many drinking songs were waiting
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 to be sung,
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so many wayward pleasures lay in 
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store for me
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and so much pain my dazzled eyes 
refused to see

[Verse]
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I ran so fast that time and youth 
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at last ran out
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I never stopped to think what life 
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was all about
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and every conversation I can now 
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recall
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concerned itself with me and nothing
 else at all

[Chorus]
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Yesterday the moon was blue
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and every crazy day brought 
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something new to do
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I used my magic age as if it were a
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 wand
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and never saw the waste and 
emptiness beyond

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The game of love I played with 
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arrogance and pride
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and every flame I lit too quickly 
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quickly died
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The friends I made all seemed 
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somehow to drift away
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and only I am left on stage to end 
the play

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There are so many songs in me that 
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won't be sung
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I feel the bitter taste of tears 
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upon my tongue
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The time has come for me to pay for
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 yesterday when I was young