Yesterday When I Was Young Lyrics - Dusty Springfield

(Charles Aznavour / Herbert Kretzmer) 

Spoken: Somehow, it seems the love I knew was always the most destructive kind 

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 the 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 time ran away 

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Yesterday when I was young 

So many lovely songs were waiting to be sung 

So many wild pleasures lay in store for me 

And so much pain my 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 that I can now recall 

Concerned itself with me and nothing else at all 

The game of love I played with arrogance and pride 

And every flame I lit too quickly, quickly died 

The friends I made all somehow seemed to slip away 

And only now I'm left alone to end the play, yeah 

Oh, yesterday when I was young 

So many, many songs were waiting to be sung 

So many wild pleasures lay in store for me 

And so much pain my eyes refused to see 

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