Yesterday when i was young

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Yesterday when I was young  
  
                      Gmaj7                Cmaj7  
The taste of love was sweet as rain upon my tongue;  
  
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I teased at life as if it were a foolish game  
  
                      Em         Em7             E7  
The way the evening breeze may tease a candle flame.  
  
  
                       Am7                             D7  
The thousand dreams I dreamed, the splendid things I planned--  
  
                  Gmaj7                      Cmaj7  
I always built to last on weak and shifting sand;  
  
                     B                      B7  
I lived by night and shunned the naked light of day,  
  
               Em           Em7        E7  
And only now I see how the years ran away.  
  
  
       Am7            D7  
Yesterday when I was young,  
  
               Gmaj7                   Cmaj7  
So many happy songs were waiting to be sung,  
  
                Am                        B7  
So many wayward pleasures lay in store for me,  
  
                    Em             Em7        E7  
And so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see.  
  
  
                   Am7                           D7  
I ran so fast that time and youth, at last, ran out,  
  
                    Gmaj7                   Cmaj7  
I never stopped to think what life was all about;  
  
                Am                B7  
And ev'ry conversation I can now recall  
  
                      Em      Em7              E7  
Concerned itself with me, and nothing else at all.  
  
  
      Am7               D7  
Yesterday the moon was blue,  
  
                Gmaj7                       Cmaj7  
And ev'ry crazy day brought something new to do,  
  
                B                 B7  
I used my magic age as if it were a wand,  
  
                  Em         Em7          E7  
And never saw the waste and emptiness beyond.  
  
  
                    Am7                       D7  
The game of love I played with arrogance and pride,  
  
         Gmaj7   Cmaj7  
And ev'ry flame I lit too quickly, quickly died;  
  
                        B                    B7  
The friends I made all seemed somehow to drift away  
  
               Em       Em7              E7  
And only I am left on stage to end the play.  
  
  
                    Am7                      D7  
There are so many songs in me that won't be sung,  
  
                   G                      Cmaj7  
I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue;  
  
                     Am     Am7              B7  
The time has come for me to pay for yesterday   
  
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When I was young.