Listen to Yesterday, When I Was Young (Live at the Nederlander Theatre, NYC 1981) by Lena Horne

Yesterday, When I Was Young (Live at the Nederlander Theatre, NYC 1981)

Lena Horne

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Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Yesterday, when I was young

The taste of life was sweet as rain

Upon my tongue

I teased with life as if it was a silly game

[Verse 2]

The way they evening breeze

Can tease a candle flame

The thousand dreams I dreamed

The splendid things I plan

[Verse 3]

I always built, it seems, on weak and shifting sands

I lived by night, and I shunned the naked light of day

And only now

I see how the years have run away

[Verse 4]

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

[Verse 5]

I ran so fast that time and youth ran out

And I never, never stopped to think what life was all about

And every conversation, I can now recall, concerned itself with me

Just me and nobody else at all

[Verse 6]

Yesterday, the moon was blue

And every crazy day brought something new and good and exciting

For me to do

I used my magic youth just like it was a wand

And I never saw the pain and the emptiness relic beyond

[Verse 7]

The game of love I played with arrogance and pride

And every flame I lit too quickly, quickly died

Friends, the friends that I had, well, I just let them slip away

And, now it's only me out here, all alone on this stage

Waitin' to end my play

[Verse 8]

There're so many other songs in me that I have not sung

I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue

Lord, the time has come for me to pay

I have got to pay, pay for yesterday

[Verse 9]

Yesterday, when I was young

Young, oh, when I was young

Written by: Charles Aznavour