yesterday when i was young

• somehow, it seems the love i knew was always the most destructive kind
  
  yesterday 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 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
  
  yesterday when i was young
  so many lovely songs were waiting to be sung
  so many wild pleasures lay in store for me
  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 im left alone to end the play, yeah
  
  oh, yesterday when i was young
  so many, many songs were waiting to be sung
  so many wild pleasures lay in store for me
  and so much pain my eyes refused to see
  there are so many songs in me that wont 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