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[00:06.16]It seems the love I've known has always been
[00:09.66]The most destructive kind
[00:12.06]I guess that's why now I feel so old
[00:16.76]Before my time
[00:19.53]Yesterday when I was young
[00:24.90]The taste of life was sweet as rain upon my tongue
[00:30.04]I teased at life as if it were a foolish game
[00:35.66]The way the evening breeze may tease a candle flame
[00:41.25]The thousand dreams I dreamed, the splendid things I planned
[00:46.99]I always built to last on weak and shifting sand
[00:52.13]I lived by night and shunned the naked light of the day
[00:56.82]And only now I see how the years ran away
[01:02.25]Yesterday when I was young
[01:07.60]So many happy songs were waiting to be sung
[01:12.79]So many wild pleasures lay in store for me
[01:18.07]And so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see
[01:23.12]I ran so fast that time and youth at last ran out
[01:28.73]I never stopped to think what life was all about
[01:34.52]And every conversation I can now recall
[01:40.41]Concerned itself with me and nothing else at all
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[02:06.10]Yesterday the moon was blue
[02:11.92]And every crazy day brought something new to do
[02:16.93]I used my magic age as if it were a wand
[02:22.67]And never saw the waste and the emptiness beyond
[02:27.75]The game of love I played with arrogance and pride
[02:33.02]And every flame I lit too quickly, quickly died
[02:38.83]The friends I made all seemed somehow to drift away
[02:43.88]And only I am left on stage to end the play
[02:50.09]There are so many songs in me that won't be sung
[02:54.90]I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue
[03:00.24]The time has come for me to pay
[03:03.26]For yesterday when I was young
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