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Song title: Shirley Bassey - Yesterday When I Was Young

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Yesterday When I Was Young
 Herbert Kretzmer
 
 
 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 g ame,
 the way the evening breeze may tease a candle fl ame.
 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 the 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 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 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 itwere 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