D5             G5
Yesterday when I was young, 
                      C5                        F5
The taste of life was sweet as rain upon my tongue
            D5                          E5
I teased at life as if it were a foolish game
                    A5
The way the evening breeze may tease the candle flame

The thousand dreams I dreamed, the splendid things I planned
I always built to last on weak and shifting sand
I lived by night and shunned the naked light of day
And only now I see how the time ran away

Chorus:
      D5             G5
Yesterday when I was young
               C5                    F5
So many lovely songs were waiting to be sung
              D5                   E5
So many wild pleasures lay in store for me
            A5
And so much pain my eyes refused to see

I ran so fast that time and youth at last ran out
I never stopped to think what life was all about
And every conversation that I can now recall
Concerned itself with me and nothing else at all

The game of love I played with arrogance and pride
And every flame I lit too quickly, quickly died
The friends I made all somehow seemed to slip away
And only now I'm left alone to end the play, yeah

Chorus

There are so many songs in me that won't be sung
I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue
The time has come for me to pay for yesterday
When I was young




by: Jos? Duarte