Yesterday when I was Young, Roy Clark

It seems the love
I've known has always been
the most destructive kind
Yes, that's why
now I feel so old
before my time

Yesterday
when I was young
The taste of life was sweet
As rain upon my tounge

I teased that 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 to last
on weak and shifting sand

I lived by night
shun the naked light of day
And only now I see
how the years ran away

Yesterday when I was young
so many happy songs
were waiting to be sung

So many wild pleasures
lay in store for me
And so much pain
my dazzled eyes refused to see

I ran so fast that time
and knew the 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 die

The friends I made
all seem somehow to drift away
And only I am left
on stage to end the play

There are so many songs
that needed and wanted to 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