Yesterday, When I Was Young-Oklahoma Sky

[ti:Yesterday, When I Was Young] [ar:Oklahoma Sky] [al:I'm a Ramblin' Man: Classic Country] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Yesterday, When I Was Young - Oklahoma Sky [00:20.80]Yesterday when I was young [00:25.30]The taste of life was sweet [00:27.99]Like rain upon my tongue [00:30.70]I teased at life as if [00:33.48]It were a foolish game [00:36.02]The way an evening breeze [00:38.61]May tease a candle flame [00:41.15]The thousand dreams I dreamed [00:43.48]The splendid things I planned [00:46.17]I always built to last [00:48.64]On weak and shifting sand [00:51.44]I lived by night and shunned [00:54.96]The naked light of day [00:57.09]And only now I see [00:59.75]How the years have ran away [01:02.19]Yesterday when I was young [01:06.88]There were so many songs [01:09.75]That waited to be sung [01:12.49]So many wild pleasures [01:15.33]Lay in store for me [01:17.47]And so much pain [01:19.69]My dazzled eyes refused to see [01:22.90]I ran so fast that time [01:25.23]And youth at last ran out [01:27.82]I never stopped to think [01:30.43]What life was all about [01:33.03]And every conversation [01:36.29]That I can now recall [01:38.76]Concerns itself with me [01:41.29]And nothing else at all [01:46.21] [02:05.14]Yesterday the moon was blue [02:10.18]And every crazy day [02:12.51]Brought something new to do [02:15.53]And I used my magic age [02:18.39]As if it were a wand [02:21.01]And never saw the waste [02:23.51]And emptiness beyond [02:26.18]The game of love I played [02:28.43]With arrogance and pride [02:30.88]And every flame I lit [02:33.62]So quickly quickly died [02:36.38]The friends I made all seemed [02:39.31]Somehow to drift away [02:41.69]And only I am left [02:44.13]On stage to end the play [02:46.88]There are so many songs in me [02:50.06]That won't be sung [02:51.92]I feel the bitter taste [02:54.34]Of tears upon my tongue [02:57.13]And The time has come for me [03:00.25]To pay for yesterday [03:03.86]When I was young