Mel Torm — Medley: When The World Was Young/Yesterday When I Was Young

When the World Was Young [Verse] Wherever I go they call me by name And that in itself is some kind of fame I'm good for a laugh, and a drink, and a game Wherever I go, they're I'm glad that I came The life that I live, I like it just fine There's music and romance and glamour and wine And beautiful girls and some of them mine But often my eyes see a different shine Yesterday When I Was Young [Verse 1] 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 Only now I see how the years ran away [Bridge] Yesterday, when I was young So many drinking songs were waiting to be sung So many wayward pleasures lay in store for me 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, nothing else at all [Verse 2] 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 Never saw the waste and emptiness beyond The game of life 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 note of tears upon my tongue The time has come for me to pay for yesterday When I was young