Yesterday, When I Was Young-Mel Tormé

[00:00.000] 作曲 : Herbert Kretzmer [00:02.140]the taste of life was sweet as rain upon my tongue. [00:08.740]I teased at life as if it were a foolish g ame, [00:15.590]the way the evening breeze may tease a candle fl ame. [00:21.890]The thousand dreams I dreamed, the splendid things I planned [00:27.290]I always built alas on weak and shifting sand. [00:33.400]I lived by night and shunned the naked light of the day [00:44.690]and only now I see how the years ran away. [00:47.890]Yesterday when I was young [00:55.110]so many drinking songs were waiting to be sung, [01:01.320]so many wayward pleasures lay in store for me [01:08.840]and so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see. [01:15.410]I ran so fast that time and youth at last ran out, [01:25.340]I never stopped to think what life was all about [01:28.570]and every conversation I can now recall [01:35.480]concerned itself with me and nothing else at all. [02:10.980]There are so many songs in me that won't be sung, [02:17.950]I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue. [02:24.680]The time has come for me to pay for yesterday when I was young.