Yesterday
When I was young
The taste of life
Was sweet as rain
Upon my tongue
I teased that life
As if it were
A foolish game
The way the evening grieves
May tease a candle flame
The thousand dreams I dreamed
There's plenty things I planned
I always built
Alas
On weak and shifting sand
I lived my night and shunned
The night and shunned
The naked light of day
And only now I see
How the years ran away
Yesterday
When I was young
So many drinking songs
Were waiting to be sung
So many wherewith pleasures they stole
For me and so much pain
My dad and my mom
As old as I refuse to see
I ran so fast at that time
And years at last ran out
I never stopped to think
What life was all about
And every conversation
I cannot recall
Consent itself with me
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 wrong
I never sold the waist
I used my magic age
And emptiness beyond
The game of love I played
With arrogance and pride
And every flame I lit
To quickly, quickly die
The friends I made all seemed
Somehow to drift away
And on the year I'm 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, young, young