Yesterday When I Was Young (hier Encore) Lyrics - Charles Aznavour

Yesterday when I was young 

the taste of life was sweet like rain upon my tongue, 

I teased at life as if it were a foolish game 

the way an evening breeze would tease a candle flame, 

The thousand dreams I dreamed, the splendid things I planned 

I always built to last on weak and shifting sand, 

I lived by night and shunned the naked light of day 

and only now I see how the years have run away 

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Yesterday when I was young 

there were so many songs that waited to be sung, 

So many wild pleasures that 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 and 

I never stopped to think what life was all about, 

and every conversation that I can recall 

concerned itself with me, and nothing else at all. 

Yesterday the moon was blue 

and every crazy day brought something new to do, 

and 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 so quickly, quickly died 

the friends I made all seemed, somehow, to drift away 

and only I am left on stage to end the play. 

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Yesterday when I was young 

there were so many songs that waited to be sung, 

So many wild pleasures lay in store for me 

and so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see, 

There are so many songs in me that won't be sung 

cause I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue 

And the time has come for me to pay for yesterday 

When I was young.