Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Yesterday, When I Was Young , by - Mel Torme. Song from the album A Time For Us, in the genre Release date: 31.12.1968
Record label: Capitol
Song language: English
Yesterday, When I Was Young |
| 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 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 |