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YESTERDAY, WHEN I WAS YOUNG

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-Charles Aznavour/Herbert Kretzmer

Intro:

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Yester-day, when I was young, the taste of life was sweet as rain upon my tongue.

I teased at 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

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I always built to last, on weak and shifting sand.

I lived by night, and shunned the naked light of the day, and only now I see how the years ran away.

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Yester-day, 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.

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I ran so fast that time and youth at last ran out, I never stopped to think what life was all a-bout

And every conver-sation I can now re-call, concerns itself with me and nothing else at all.

Instrumental (same as verse)

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Yester-day 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.

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The game of love I played with arrogance and pride, and every flame I lit too quickly, quickly died.

The friends I made all seemed somehow to drift a-way, and only I am left on stage to end the play.

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There are so many songs in me that won't be sung, I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue.

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The time has come for me to pay for yester-day when I was young.

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