Mel Tormé - Medley: When The World Was Young/Yesterday When I Was Young lyrics

When the World Was Young

Wherever I go they call me by name
And that in it'self is some kind of fame
I'm good for a laugh, and a drink, and a game
Wherever I go, they're I'm glad that I came
The life that I live, I like it just fine
There's music and romance and
Glamour and wine
And beautiful girls and some of them mine
But often my eyes see a different shine
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
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
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
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
Never saw the waste and emptiness beyond
The game of life 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 note of
Tears upon my tongue
The time has come for me to pay for yesterday
When I was young