Blossom Dearie - 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 happy songs were waiting to be sung
So many wild 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 worst
And the 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