Yesterday when I was young

The taste of life was sweet as rain upon my tongue

I teased at life as though 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'd always built to last on weak and shifting sand

I lived by night and shunned the naked light 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 with wild pleasures lay in store from me

And so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see

I ran so fast that time and youth at last ran out

I given stopped to think what life was all about

And every conversation I can now recall

Concerns itself with me and nothing else at all

Yesterday when I was young

As I approach the prime of my life

I find I have the time of my life

Learning to enjoy at my leisure

All the simple pleasure

And so I happily concede

This is all I ask

This is all I need

Beautiful girl walk a little slower when you walk by me

And only sunset stay a little longer with the lonely sea

Children everywhere when you shoot at bad men shoot at me

Take me to that strange enchanted land

Grown ups seldom understand

Wandering rainbows leave a little color for my heart to own

Stars in the sky make my wish come true

Before the night has flown

And let the music play as long as there's a song to sing

Then I will stay younger

I will stay younger

I will stay younger than spring