Chords for Yesterday When I Was Young

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