Yesterday When I Was Young - Patricia Kaas

[00:18.39]Yesterday when I was young
[00:22.93]The taste of life was sweet as rain upon my tongue
[00:28.52]I teased at life as if it were a foolish game
[00:35.05]The way the evening breeze may tease a candle flame
[00:40.97]The thousand dreams I dreamed
[00:44.75]The splendid things I planned
[00:48.08]I always built to last on weak and shifting sand
[00:54.14]I lived by night and shunned the naked light of the day
[01:00.01]And only now I see how the years ran away
[01:05.69]Yesterday when I was young
[01:11.94]So many songs were waiting to be sung
[01:17.82]So many wayward pleasures lay in store for me
[01:24.1]And so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see
[01:30.06]I ran so fast that time and youth at last ran out
[01:36.3]I never stopped to think what life was all about
[01:42.41]And every conversation I can now recall
[01:48.55]Concerned itself with me and nothing else at all
[01:54.46]Esterday, the moon was blue
[02:01.21]And every crazy day, brought something new to do
[02:06.8]I used my magic age, as if it were a wand
[02:13.56]And never saw the waste, and the emptiness beyond
[02:19.13]The game of love I played, with arrogance and pride
[02:25.97]And every flame I lit, too quickly, quickly died
[02:31.54001]The friends I made, all seemed somehow to drift away
[02:38.51]And only I am left, on stage to end the play
[02:43.74]Here are so many songs in me that won't be sung
[02:50.64]I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue
[02:56.72]The time has come for me to pay for yesterday
[03:02.3]When I was young