Charles Aznavour Yesterday When I Was Young Lyrics

Yesterday When I Was Young Lyrics

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 drinking 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 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 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