Yesterday When I Was Young - Roy Clark

[00:00.0]Yesterday When I Was Young - Roy Clark
[00:05.95]Seems the love I've known has always been
[00:10.32]The most destructive kind
[00:12.87]Yes that's why now I feel so old
[00:16.79]Before my time
[00:19.67]Yesterday when I was young
[00:25.14]The taste of life was sweet as rain upon my tongue
[00:30.53]I teased at life as if it were a foolish game
[00:36.31]The way the evening breeze may tease a candle flame
[00:41.74]The thousand dreams I dreamed
[00:44.66]The splendid things I planned
[00:47.64]I'd always built to last on weak and shifting sand
[00:52.49]I lived by night and shunned
[00:55.06]The naked light of the day
[00:57.62]And only now I see how the years ran away
[01:02.94]Yesterday when I was young
[01:07.78]So many happy songs were waiting to be sung
[01:13.34]So many wild pleasures lay in store for me
[01:19.12]And so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see
[01:24.09]I ran so fast that time and youth at last ran out
[01:29.59]I never stopped to think what life was all about
[01:35.28]And every conversation I can now recall
[01:40.79]Concerned it self with me and nothing else at all
[02:07.97]Yesterday the moon was blue
[02:12.87]And every crazy day brought something new to do
[02:17.87]I used my magic age as if it were a wand
[02:23.49]And never saw the waste and emptiness beyond
[02:28.52]The game of love I played with arrogance and pride
[02:33.97]And every flame I lit too quickly quickly died
[02:39.67]The friends I made all seemed somehow to drift away
[02:45.11]And only I am left on stage to end the play
[02:50.06]There are so many songs in me that won't be sung
[02:55.99]I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue
[03:01.26]The time has come for me to pay for
[03:04.31]Yesterday when I was young