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Yesterday wehn I was young The taste of life was sweet
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As rain ypon my tounge I played at life as if
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It were a foolish game The way the evening breeze
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Plays with a candle flame The thousand dreams I dreamed
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The splendid things I planned I always built to last
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On weak and shifting sands I lived by night
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Declined the naked light of day And only now I see
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The years that ran away
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Yesterday when I was young So many crazy SONGs
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Were waiting to be SONG So many crazy times
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That lay in store for me And so much pain inside
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My heart refused to see
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I ran so fast that time And youth at last ran out
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I never stopped to think What life was all about
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And every conversation That I can now recall
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Has all to do with me And nothing else at all
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Yesterday the moon was blue And every crazy dat
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Brought something new to do I used my magic age
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As if it were a wand And never say the waste
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And emptiness beyond
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The games of love I played With arrogance and pride
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And every flame I lit So quickly quickly died
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The friends I made all seemed Somehow to drift away
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And oly I am left On stage to end the play
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Yesterday when I was young
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Yesterday When I Was Young
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| Roy Clark |
