Karaoke Track: Yesterday When I Was Young by Roy Clark (JVC)

I Seems the love I&#39;ve known has
always been the most destructive
kind. Yes. that&#39;s why now

I feel so old before my time. 1

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 to last

on weak and shifting sand.

I live by night
and shun the naked light of 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 wild 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
concerns 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 be yond.

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&#39;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.