Yesterday, When I Was Young/Roy Clark

https://youtu.be/WtNJrl5lj74?si=Uyk99yia-QZtAOsk

 

 

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 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 lived 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

 

 

 

 

arrogance  오만함

wand  마법의 지팡이

 

drop me off  내리다

era    age  시대

shake off 털어내다

heavily used  중요하게 사용되다

reveals  드러내다

 

 

2024. 08. 08

 

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