Yesterday, When I Was Young/Roy Clark

Yesterday, When I Was Young

Roy Clark

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 to last on weak and shifting sand

I lieved by night and shunned the naked light of the 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 waste and 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

shunned  = avoid  피하다

in store  예비된

arrogance   오만

drift away  떠나다

lit  불을 밝혔다  켜졌다

wand  마법의 지팡이

dazzled  eyes  눈부신 눈

ran out  떨어졌다

magic age  마법 시대

splended  화려한

myth 신화

legend  전설

tale  우화

anecdote  일화  일상적인 이야기

spring to life   갑자기 활발해지다

spring to your feet   벌떡 일어서다

spring a surprise  갑자기 놀라게 하다

spring to mind  갑자기 생각이 떠 오르다

went out of business  사업이 망했다

get around  (소문 등이) 퍼지다

scatter  흩뿌리다

You bet  당연하다

You have been holding out on.  마음에 품었다

reduce price  깍은 값

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2018. 08. 09