"YESTERDAY, WHEN I WAS YOUNG"

Yesterday, When I Was Young - 許冠傑 (Sam Hui)

Written by：Herbert Kertsmer Charles A

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 a candle flame

The thousand dreams I dreamed

The splendid things I planned

I always built alas

On weak and shifting sand

I lived by night

And shunned the naked light of day

And only now I see

How the years ran away

Yesterday

When I was young

So many happy songs

Were waiting to be sung

So many well pleasures

Lay in store for me

And so much pain my dazzled 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

I can now recall concerned

Itself with me and nothing else at all

Yesterday

The moon was blue

And every crazy day

Brought something new to do

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

The arrogance and pride

And every flame I lit

Too quickly quickly died

My friends I made all seemed

Somehow to drift away

And only I am left

On stage to end the play

There are so many songs

In me that won't 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