Yesterday, When I Was Young / Roy Clark

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Seem the love I've known has always
been The most destructive kind
Guess that's why now
I feel so old before my time

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 way-ward 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 itself 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 left on stage to end the way

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