Yesterday When I Was Young (영화 그해 여름 )...Roy Clarck

Yesterday When I Was Young (영화 그해 여름 ) - V.A.

It seems the love I've known, has always been the most destructive kind.

I guess that s why now, I feel so old before my time.

 

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 wild 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 worst and the emptiness beyond

The game of love I played with arrogance and pride,

And every flame I lit too quickly, quickly died,

The 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