Yesterday When I Was Young (Hier Encore) Chords

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_ _ _ _ _ _ [C] Yesterday, _ [Cm] when I was [F] young, _ the taste [Bb] of life was sweet as rain upon [Eb] my tongue.
I teased [Cm] at life as if it were a [D] foolish game.
The way [Gm] the evening breeze may tease a candle flame.
The thousand [Cm] dreams I dreamed, the splendid [F] things I planned,
I always [Bb] built to last on weak and [Eb] shifting sand.
I lived by [Cm] night and shunned the [D] naked light of day.
And [Gm] only now I see how the years ran away.
_ [Cm] Yesterday, when I [F] was young, so many [Bb] happy songs were waiting [Eb] to be sung.
So many [Cm] wild pleasures lay in [D] store for me, and so much [Gm] pain my dazzled eyes refused to see.
I ran so [Cm] fast at time, and youth at [F] last ran out.
I never stopped [Bb] to think what life was [Eb] all about.
And every [Cm] conversation _ I can [D] now recall concerned [Gm] itself with me and nothing else at all.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [Cm] Yesterday, _ the moon [F] was blue, _ and every [Bb] crazy day brought something [Eb] new to do.
_ I used [Cm] my magic age as if it were a [D] wand, _ [D] and never [Gm] saw the waste.
An emptiness beyond the game of [Cm] love I played with arrogance [F] and pride.
And every flame [Bb] I lit too quickly, [Eb] quickly died.
The friends [Cm] I made all seemed somehow to drift [D] away, and only [Gm] I am left on stage to end the play.
There are so many [Cm]
songs in me that won't [F] be sung.
I feel the [Bb] bitter taste of tears upon [Eb] my tongue.
_ The time has [Cm] come for me to pay for [D] yesterday, _ _ [A] _ _
when I [Gm] was young. _ _ _ _
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