Vikki Carr - The Ways To Love A Man/Nashville By Carr (2007)

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 an evening breeze
would tease a 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 years have run away.

Yesterday when I was young
so many Happy songs that waited to be sung,
So many wild pleasures
that lay and stored for me,
And so much pain
my dazzled eyes refused to see.

I ran so fast the time
and youth's last run out
and I never stopped to think
what life was all about
and every conversation that I can recall
concerned itself with me
and nothing else at all.

Yesterday the moon was blue
and every crazy day
brought something new to do
and I used my magic age
as if it were a wand
and never saw
the waste and emptiness beyond.

The game of love
I played with elegance and pride and every flame
I lit so quickly, quickly died.
The friends I made all
seem somehow to drift away
And only I am left on stage
to end the play.

There are so many songs
and needed won't be sung.
'Cause I feel the bitter taste of tears
upon my tongue
and the time has come for me to pay for yesterday
when I was young.