Yesterday When I Was Young-Charles Aznavour

[ti:Yesterday When I Was Young] [ar:Charles Aznavour] [al:Greatest Golden Hits] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Yesterday When I Was Young - Charles Aznavour [00:14.39]Yesterday when I was young [00:18.54] [00:19.68]The taste of life was sweet as rain upon my tongue [00:24.80] [00:26.34]I teased at life as if it were a foolish game [00:31.55] [00:32.46]The way the evening breeze may tease a candle flame [00:37.52] [00:38.81]The thousand dreams I dreamed the splendid things I planned [00:44.69] [00:45.60]I always built alas on weak and shifting sand [00:50.84] [00:52.01]I lived by night and shunned the naked light of day [00:57.16] [00:59.10]And only now I see how the years ran away [01:03.53] [01:05.95]Yesterday when I was young [01:11.18]So many drinking songs were waiting to be sung [01:17.54]So many wayward pleasures lay in store for me [01:23.34]And so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see [01:28.87] [01:29.86]I ran so fast that time and youth at last ran out [01:35.79] [01:36.76]I never stopped to think what life was all about [01:42.12] [01:42.92]And every conversation I can now recall [01:49.33] [01:49.96]Concerned itself with me and nothing else at all [01:55.33] [01:57.95]Yesterday the moon was blue [02:01.84] [02:03.32]And every crazy day brought something new to do [02:07.87] [02:09.77]I used my magic age as if it were a wand [02:14.88] [02:16.37]And never saw the waste and emptiness beyond [02:20.71] [02:22.34]The game of love I played with arrogance and pride [02:27.57] [02:28.80]And every flame I lit too quickly quickly died [02:34.28] [02:35.29]The friends I made all seemed somehow to drift away [02:40.52] [02:41.90]And only I am left on stage to end the play [02:46.31] [02:47.54]There are so many songs in me that won't be sung [02:53.51] [02:54.53]I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue [03:00.10] [03:01.31]The time has come for me to pay for [03:05.45]Yesterday when I was young