Julio Iglesias – Yesterday When I Was Young (Guitar)

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the taste of life was sweet, as rain upon my tongue,

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I teased at life, as if it were a foolish game, 

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the way the evening breeze may tease a candle flame.

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The thousand dreams I dreamed, the splendid things I planned, 

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I always built, alas, on weak and shifting sand, 

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I lived by night, and shunned the naked light of day, 

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and only now, I see, how the years ran away.

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Yesterday, when I was young, 

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so many happy songs were waiting to be sung, 

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so many wayward pleasures lay in store for me, 

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and so much pain, my dazzled eyes 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, I can now recall,

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concerned itself with me, and nothing else at all.

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Yesterday, the moon was blue, 

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and every crazy day, brought something new to do, 

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I used my magic age, as if it were a wand, 

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and never saw the waste, and emptiness beyond.

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The game of love I played, with arrogance and pride,

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And every flame I lit, too quickly, quickly died,

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the friends I made, all seemed, somehow, to drift away, 

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and only I am left, on stage, to end the play.

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There are so many songs in me, that won't be sung,

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I feel the bitter taste, of tears upon my tongue,

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the time has come for me to pay for yesterday..

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when I was young.