YESTERDAY, WHEN I WAS YOUNG

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Song Title
YESTERDAY, WHEN I WAS YOUNG
Writers
Aznavour, Kretzmer
Publisher
HAMPSHIRE HOUSE PUBLISHING CORP. (ASCAP)
Co-Publisher
Non-TRO Affiliate
% Publisher Controls
100%
Territory Controlled
US AND CANADA
Themes/Keywords
Age, Drinking, Games, Life, Memories, Nostalgia, Pain, Playing games, Song, Years, yesterday, Young, Youth
Lyrics
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 lived by 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 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 ev’ry conversation I can now recall
Concerned itself with me and nothing else at all.

Yesterday the moon was blue,
And ev’ry 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 ev’ry 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.

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