When the Moon Was Blue

Lyrics

[Verse 1] Yesterday, when I was young The taste of life was sweet as rain upon my tongue I teased at life as if it were a foolish game The way the evening breeze may tease a candle flame The thousand dreams I dreamed, the splendid things I planned I always built alas on weak and shifting sand I lived by night and shunned the naked light of day And only now I see how the years ran away, oh [Verse 2] Yesterday, when I was young So many drinking songs were waiting to be sung And so many wayward pleasures lay in store for me And so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see I ran so fast that time and youth at last ran out I never stopped to think what life was all about And every conversation that I can now recall Concerned itself with me, with me, with me And nothin' else at all, nothin' else at all, nothin' else at all [Chorus] Yeah, yesterday, when the moon was blue Yeah, yesterday, when the moon was blue Yeah, yesterday, when the moon was blue Yeah, yesterday, when the moon was blue Yeah, yesterday, when the moon was blue Yeah, yesterday, when the moon was blue Yeah, yesterday, when the moon was blue Yeah, yesterday, when the moon was blue Yeah, yesterday, when the moon was blue Yeah, yesterday, when the moon was blue Yeah, yesterday, when the moon was blue Yeah, yesterday, when the moon was blue [Verse 3] Yeah, yesterday, when the moon was blue And every crazy day brought something new to do I used my magic age as if it were a wand And never saw the waste and emptiness beyond The game of love I played with arrogance and pride Every flame I lit too quickly, quickly died The friends I made all seemed somehow to drift away And only I'm left on stage to end the play, play, play, play, play, play [Chorus] Yeah, yesterday, when the moon was blue Yeah, yesterday, when the moon was blue Yeah, yesterday, when the moon was blue Yeah, yesterday, when the moon was blue Yeah, yesterday, when the moon was blue Yeah, yesterday, when the moon was blue Yeah, yesterday, when the moon was blue Yeah, yesterday, when the moon was blue Yeah, yesterday, when the moon was blue Yeah, yesterday, when the moon was blue Yeah, yesterday, when the moon was blue Yeah, yesterday, when the moon was blue Yeah, yesterday, when the moon was blue Yeah, yesterday, when the moon was blue Yeah, yesterday, when the moon was blue Yeah, yesterday, when the moon was blue Yeah, yesterday, when the moon was blue Yeah, yesterday, when the moon was blue Yeah, yesterday, when the moon was blue Yeah, yesterday, when the moon was blue