Yesterday When I Was Young-Vikki Carr

[ti:Yesterday When I Was Young] [ar:Vikki Carr] [al:Sings the Standards] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.37]Yesterday When I Was Young - Vikki Carr [00:01.69]Written by：Herbert Kretzmer/Charles Aznavour [00:02.79] [00:08.04]Yesterday when I was young [00:13.21] [00:14.16]The taste of life was sweet as rain upon my tongue [00:19.90] [00:20.77]I teased at life as if it were a foolish game [00:26.97]The way the evening breeze may tease a candle flame [00:34.35] [00:35.35]The thousand dreams I dreamed [00:38.31] [00:38.98]The splendid things I planned [00:41.72]I always built alas [00:43.46] [00:44.30]On weak and shifting sand [00:46.66] [00:47.37]I lived by night and shunned the naked light of day [00:51.48] [00:52.63]And only now I see how the years ran away [00:57.23] [00:57.80]Yesterday when I was young [01:02.97]So many happy songs were waiting to be sung [01:08.24] [01:08.90]So many wayward pleasures lay in store for me [01:13.47] [01:14.65]And so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see [01:18.94] [01:19.84]I ran so fast that time and youth at last ran out [01:24.37] [01:25.91]I never stopped to think what life was all about [01:30.59] [01:31.25]And every conversation [01:34.22]I can now recall concerned itself with me [01:38.23] [01:39.49]And nothing else at all [01:41.75] [02:08.05]Yesterday the moon was blue [02:12.83] [02:13.64]And every crazy day brought something new to do [02:18.22] [02:19.19]I used my magic age as if it were a wand [02:24.23] [02:24.99]And never saw the waste and emptiness beyond [02:29.47] [02:30.09]The game of love I played with arrogance and pride [02:34.30] [02:35.31]And every flame I lift too quickly quickly died [02:40.26] [02:40.99]The friends I made all seemed somehow to drift away [02:45.10] [02:46.24]And only I am left on stage to end the play [02:50.68] [02:51.65]There are so many songs in me that won't be sung [02:56.53]I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue [03:01.13] [03:01.71]The time has come for me to pay for yesterday [03:07.23] [03:07.93]When I was young