[00:06.00](Charles Aznavour / Herbert Kretzmer)[00:06.84]Spoken : Somehow, it seems the love[00:09.96]I knew was always the most destructive kind[00:17.04]Yesterday when[00:20.79]I was young[00:23.22]The taste of life was sweet[00:25.98]As rain upon my tongue[00:29.16]I teased at life as if it were a foolish game[00:34.68]The way the evening breeze[00:37.23]May tease the candle flame[00:40.32]The thousand dreams[00:42.03]I dreamed[00:43.41]The splendid things[00:44.91]I planned[00:46.47]I always built to last on weak and shifting sand[00:52.23]I lived by night and shunned the naked light of day[00:58.02]And only now[00:59.49]I see how the time ran away[01:03.90]Yesterday when[01:06.60]I was young[01:09.39]So many lovely songs were waiting to be sung[01:15.36]So many wild pleasures lay in store for me[01:20.61]And so much pain my eyes refused to see[01:26.28]I ran so fast that time and youth at last ran out[01:31.92]I never stopped to think what life was all about[01:37.26]And every conversation that[01:40.32]I can now recall[01:42.48]Concerned itself with me and nothing else at all[01:48.12]The game of love[01:51.24]I played with arrogance and pride[01:54.33]And every flame[01:55.62]I lit too quickly, quickly died[02:00.18]The friends[02:00.99]I made all somehow seemed to slip away[02:05.40]And only now[02:07.89]I'm left alone to end the play, yeah[02:34.08]Oh, yesterday when[02:36.15]I was young[02:38.40]So many, many songs were waiting to be sung[02:43.98]So many wild pleasures lay in store for me[02:49.05]And so much pain my eyes refused to see[02:54.99]There are so many songs in me that won't be sung[03:00.93]I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue[03:06.33]The time has come for me to pay for yesterday[03:13.98]When I was young