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 an evening breeze
May tease a candle flame
A thousand dreams I dreamed
The splendid things I planned
I always built to last
On weak and shifting sand
I lived in the darkness
And shun the Saviours light
And oh, how the years all vanished in the night
Yesterday, when I was young
So many, many songs
Waiting to be sung
So many wayward 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
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Yesterday, the moon was blue
Every crazy day
Brought something new to do
I used my magic age
As if it were a wand
And never saw the weist
And emptiness beyond
The game of life 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 run the play
Yesterday, when I was young
So many, many songs
Waiting to be sung
So many wayward 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
The time has come for me
To pray, dear Lord, forgive
The sins of yesterday
When I was young