Ayer Cuando Fui Joven - The Music Makers

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.

So many happy songs were waiting to be sung,

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 I can now recall concerned

itself with me, and nothing else at all.