Yesterday When I Was Young chords

[VERSE 1]
Yester[Gm]day when I was [C]young
The taste of life was [F]sweet as rain upon my [Bb]tongue
I teased at life as if [Gm]it were a foolish [A]game
The way the evening [Dm]breeze may tease a candle flame.

[VERSE 2]
The thousand dreams I [Gm]dreamed, the splendid things I [C]planned
I always built, a[F]las, on weak and shifting [Bb]sand
I lived by night and [Gm]shunned the naked light of [A]day
And only now I [Dm]see how the years ran away

[CHORUS]
Yester[Bb]day, when I was [C]young
So many drinking [F]songs were waiting to be [Bb]sung
So many wayward [Gm]pleasures lay in store for [A]me
And so much pain my [Dm]dazzled eyes refused to see
I ran so fast that [Bb]time and youth at last ran [C]out
I never stopped to [F]think what life was all [Bb]about
And every conver[Gm]sation I can now re[A]call
Concerned itself with [Dm]me, me and nothing else at all.

[VERSE 3]
Yester[Gm]day the moon was [C]blue
And every crazy [F]day brought something new to [Bb]do
I used my magic [Gm]age as if it were a [A]wand
And never saw the [Dm]waste and emptiness beyond.

[VERSE 4]
The [Dm]game of love I [Gm]played with arrogance and [C]pride
And every flame I [F]lit too quickly, quickly [Bb]died.
The friends I made all [Gm]seemed somehow to drift a[A]way
And only I am [Dm]left on stage to end the play.

[OUTRO]
There are so many [Bb]songs in me that won't be [C]sung
I feel the bitter [F]taste of tears upon my [Bb]tongue
The time has come for [Gm]me to pay for yester[A]day
When I was...[Dm]young
[A]Young
[Dm]Young