Yesterday, When I Was Young-Lena Horne

[00:13.87]Yesterday when I was young [00:21.04]the taste of life was sweet as rain upon my tongue. [00:27.64]I teased at life as if it were a foolish g ame, [00:34.49]the way the evening breeze may tease a candle fl ame. [00:41.69]The thousand dreams I dreamed, the splendid things I planned [00:47.99]I always built alas on weak and shifting sand. [00:55.30]I lived by night and shunned the naked light of the day [01:05.99]and only now I see how the years ran away. [01:09.19]Yesterday when I was young [01:16.41]so many drinking songs were waiting to be sung, [01:22.62]so many wayward pleasures lay in store for me [01:30.14]and so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see. [01:36.71]I ran so fast that time and youth at last ran out, [01:46.64]I never stopped to think what life was all about [01:49.87]and every conversation I can now recall [01:56.78]concerned itself with me and nothing else at all. [02:32.28]There are so many songs in me that won't be sung, [02:39.25]I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue. [02:45.98]The time has come for me to pay for yesterday when I was young.