Yesterday When I Was Young-Bobby Bare

[ti:Yesterday When I Was Young] [ar:Bobby Bare] [al:The Moon Was Blue] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Yesterday When I Was Young - Bobby Bare (Bobby Bare) [00:09.46]Yesterday when I was young [00:13.60] [00:14.39]The taste of life was sweet like rain upon my tongue [00:19.24] [00:19.90]I teased at life as if it were a foolish game [00:23.91] [00:25.05]The way the evening breeze may tease a candle flame [00:29.80] [00:30.45]The thousand dreams I dreamed the splendid things I planned [00:35.42] [00:36.09]I always always built to last on weak and shifting sand [00:40.62] [00:41.27]I lived by night and shunned the naked light of day [00:46.02] [00:46.70]And only now I see how the years have ran away [00:51.37] [00:52.27]Yesterday when I was young so many happy songs [00:59.48] [01:00.05]That waited to be sung [01:01.90] [01:02.70]So many happy pleasures lay in store for me [01:07.28] [01:08.11]And so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see [01:12.58] [01:13.30]I ran so fast that time and youth at last ran out [01:18.51]I never stopped to think what life was all about [01:22.92] [01:23.69]And every conversation [01:25.65] [01:26.33]I can now recall concerned itself with me [01:31.09] [01:31.90]And nothing else at all [01:33.14] [01:56.08]Yesterday the moon was blue [02:00.25] [02:01.24]And every crazy day brought something new to do [02:05.65] [02:06.42]And I used my magic age as if it were a wand [02:10.69] [02:11.87]And never saw the waste and emptiness beyond [02:15.95] [02:17.24]The game of love I played with arrogance and pride [02:21.96] [02:22.71]And every flame I lit to quickly quickly died [02:26.99] [02:27.83]The friends I made all seemed somehow to drift away [02:32.45] [02:33.36]And only I am left on stage to end the play [02:38.00] [02:38.73]There are so many songs in me that won't be sung [02:43.47] [02:44.13]I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue [02:48.80] [02:49.40]The time has come for me to pay for [02:53.26]Yesterday when I was young [02:58.13] [03:16.77]Over last day when I was young