Yesterday When I Was Young

By Glenn Campbell

Video by sirpaopao on YouTube

Lyrics

Yesterday when I was young,

The taste of life was sweet, like rain upon my tongue,

I teased at life as if it were a foolish game,

The way an evening breeze would 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 lived by night and shunned the naked light of the day,

And only now I see, how the years have run away

Yesterday, when I was young,

There were so many songs that waited to be sung,

So many wild pleasures that 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,

And I never stopped to think what life was all about,

And every conversation I can recall,

Concerned itself with me and nothing else at all

Yesterday the moon was blue,

And every crazy day brought something new to do,

And I used my magic age as if it were a wand,

And never saw the worst and emptiness beyond

The game of love I played with arrogance and pride,

And every flame I lit so quickly quickly died,

The friends I made all seemed somehow to drift away,

And only I am left on stage to end the play

Yesterday, when I was young,

There were so many songs that waited to be sung,

So many wild pleasures that lay in store for me,

And so much pain, my dazzled eyes refused to see

There are so many songs in me that won't be sung,

Cause I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue,

And the time has come for me to pay,

For yesterday when I was young