yesterday when i was young

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1. Yesterday, when I was young,
2. The taste of life was sweet, as rain upon my tongue,
3. I teased at life, as if it were a foolish game,
4. The way the evening breeze may tease a candle flame
5. The thousand dreams I dreamed, the splendid things I planned,
6. I always built, alas, on weak and shifting sand,
7. I lived by night, and shunned the naked light of day,
8. And only now, I see, how the years ran away
9. Yesterday, when I was young,
10. So many happy songs were waiting to be sung,
11. So many wild pleasures lay in store for me,
12. And so much pain, my dazzled eyes refused to see
13. I ran so fast that time, and youth at last ran out,
14. I never stopped to think, what life, was all about,
15. And every conversation, I can now recall,
16. Concerned itself with me, and nothing else at all
17. Yesterday, the moon was blue,
18. And every crazy day, brought something new to do,
19. I used my magic age, as if it were a wand,
20. And never saw the worst, and the emptiness beyond
21. The game of love I played, with arrogance and pride,
22. And every flame I lit, too quickly, quickly died,
23. The friends I made, all seemed somehow to drift away,
24. And only I am left, on stage to end the play
25. There are so many songs in me, that won't be sung,
26. I feel the bitter taste, of tears upon my tongue,
27. The time has come for me to pay,
28. For yesterday, when I was young