Chords
Yesterday, When I Was Young

Key: D

Introduction:

                Dm7                                 G7  
Yesterday, when I was young,
                                                          Cm7                                                    Fm7  
the taste of life was sweet, as rain upon my tongue,
                                                        Fm                                                 E7  
I teased at life, as if it were a foolish game,
                                                     Am                      E                                 A7  
the way the evening breeze may tease a candle flame.
#2.
                                                          Dm7                                                                         G7  
The thousand dreams I dreamed, the splendid things I planned,
                                          Cm7                                                              Fm7  
I always built, alas, on weak and shifting sand,
                                                          Fm                                                                 E7  
I lived by night, and shunned the naked light of day,
                                          Am                            E                    A7  
and only now, I see, how the years ran away.
#3.
                Dm7                                 G7  
Yesterday, when I was young,
                                     Cm7                                                         Fm7  
so many happy songs were waiting to be sung,
                                          Dm7                                                              E7  
so many wayward pleasures lay in store for me,
                                                        Am                            E                      A7  
and so much pain, my dazzled eyes refused to see.
                                                  Dm7                                                                 G7  
I ran so fast that time, and youth at last ran out,
                                                  Cm7  
I never stopped to think, what life, was all about,
                                          Dm7                                            E7  
and every conversation, I can now recall,
                                                          Am              E                                    A7  
concerned itself with me, and nothing else at all.
#4.
                Dm7                                      G7  
Yesterday, the moon was blue,
                                          Cm7                                                                      Fm7  
and every crazy day, brought something new to do,
                                          Fm                                                 E7  
I used my magic age, as if it were a wand,
                                                Am                      E+                         A7  
and never saw the waste, and emptiness beyond.
                                                  Dm7                                                              G7  
The game of love I played, with arrogance and pride,
                                                Cm7  
And every flame I lit, too quickly, quickly died,
                                                                Fm                                                              E7  
the friends I made, all seemed, somehow, to drift away,
                                     Am                 E+                                         A7  
and only I am left, on stage, to end the play.
#5.
                                                Dm7                                                              G7  
There are so many songs in me, that won't be sung,
                                                Cm7  
I feel the bitter taste, of tears upon my tongue,
                                                          Dm7                                            E7  
the time has come for me to pay for yesterday..
                             Am         Dm  Am  
when I was young.
A nineties smash from Kraziekhat.