Yesterday When I Was Young

作词 : Charles Aznaourian/Herbert Kretzmer

作曲 : Charles Aznaourian/Herbert Kretzmer

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 alas on weak and shifting sand.

I ived by night and shunned the naked light of the 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 happy 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 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 seemed somehow to drift away.

and only I am 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.