Singer: Shirley Bassey <br />Song: Yesterday When I Was Young <br />Genre: Ballad <br />Year: 1971 <br />Language: English <br />Country: UK <br /> <br />"Yesterday When I Was Young" <br /> <br />Yesterday, when I was young <br />The taste of life was sweet as rain upon my tongue <br />I teased at life as if it were a foolish game <br />The way the evening breeze may tease a candle flame. <br /> <br />The thousand dreams I dreamed, <br />The splendid things I planned <br />I always built, alas, on weak and shifting sand <br />I lived by night and shunned the naked light of day <br />And only now I see how the years ran away. <br /> <br />Yesterday, when I was young. <br />So many lovely songs were waiting to be sung. <br />So many wayward pleasures lay in store for me <br />And so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see. <br /> <br />I ran so fast that time and youth at last ran out <br />I never stopped to think what life was all about <br />And every conversation I can now recall <br />Concerned itself with me, and nothing else at all. <br /> <br />Yesterday, the moon was blue <br />And every crazy day brought something new to do <br />I used my magic age as if it were a wand <br />And never saw the waste and emptiness beyond. <br /> <br />The game of love I played with arrogance and pride <br />And every flame I lit too quickly, quickly died, <br />The friends I made all seemed somehow to drift away <br />And only I am left on stage to end the play. <br /> <br />There are so many songs in me that won't be sung <br />I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue, <br />The time has come for me to pay for yesterday <br />... when I was young. <br /> <br />Yesterday, when I was young. <br />So many lovely songs were waiting to be sung. <br />So many wayward pleasures lay in store for me <br />And so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see.
