Yesterday When I Was Young - Roy Clark

[00:05]Seems the love I've known has always been
[00:09]the most destuctive kind
[00:11]Guess that's why now
[00:14]I feel so old before my time
[00:20]Yesterday when I was young
[00:25]The taste of life was sweet
[00:28]as rain upon my tongue
[00:30]I teased at life
[00:32]as if it were a foolish game
[00:36]The way the evening breeze
[00:39]may tease a candle flame
[00:41]The thousand dreams I dreamed
[00:44]The splendid things I planned
[00:47]I always built to last on weak and shifting sand
[00:52]I lived by night and shunned the naked light of day
[00:57]And only now I see how the years ran away
[01:03]Yesterday when I was young
[01:08]So many happy songs were waiting to be sung
[01:13]So many wild pleasures lay in store for me
[01:18]And so much pain
[01:20]my dazzled eyes refused to see
[01:24]I ran so fast that time
[01:26]and youth at last ran out
[01:29]I never stopped to think
[01:31]what life was all about
[01:34]And every conversation I can now recall
[01:40]Concerned itself with me and nothing else at all
[02:07]Yesterday the moon was blue
[02:12]And every crazy day
[02:14]brought something new to do
[02:17]I used my magic age as if it were a wand
[02:22]And never saw all the waste and emptiness beyond
[02:28]The game of love I played
[02:30]with arrogance and pride
[02:33]And every flame I lit too quickly quickly died
[02:38]The friends I made all seem
[02:41]somehow to drift away
[02:43]And only I'm left on stage to end the play
[02:48]There are so many songs in me that won't be sung
[02:54]I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue
[02:59]The time has come for me
[03:01]To pay for yesterday
[03:05]When I was young