Matt Monro - Yesterday When I Was Young(1967) C

Words & Music by Charles Aznavour & Herbert Kretzmer
From The Album "The Collection" 2004
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Kar by Geoff Carter 6th September 2025
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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 drinking 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...

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Matt Monro - Yesterday When I Was Young(1967) C
Words & Music by Charles Aznavour & Herbert Kretzmer
From The Album "The Collection" 2004
Revised Sequence 6th September 2025
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