Shirley Bassey - Yesterday When I Was Young 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 lovely 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 it'self 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

Yesterday, when I was young
So many lovely 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
Yesterday, when I was young
So many lovely songs were waiting to be sung
So many wayward pleasures lay in store for me
And so much pain my dazzled refused to see

Yesterday, when I was young
So many lovely songs were waiting to be sung