Lirik dan Chord Lagu Yesterday When I Was Young - Charles Aznavour

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Yesterday When I Was Young merupakan lagu yang dipopulerkan oleh penyanyi laki-laki asal Perancis, Charles Aznavour. Lagu berdurasi 3 menit 34 detik ini merupakan lagu kedelapan dalam album bertajuk “Greatest Golden Hits” yang dirilis pada tahun 1996. Album ini memuat 20 trek lagu, di antaranya How Sad Venice Can Be, Hold Back The Night, dan After Loving You. Penasaran seperti apa lagunya? Untuk mengetahui lirik lagu dan chord “Yesterday When I Was Young” yang dinyanyikan Charles Aznavour, simak selengkapnya di bawah ini.

 

Lirik Lagu Yesterday When I Was Young – Charles Aznavour

 

[Verse 1] Gm C

Yesterday when I was young F Bb

The taste of life was sweet as rain upon my tongue Gm A

I teased at life as if it were a foolish game Dm

The way the evening breeze may tease a candle flame.

 

[Verse 2] Gm C

The thousand dreams I dreamed, the splendid things I planned F Bb

I always built, alas, on weak and shifting sand Gm A

I lived by night and shunned the naked light of day Dm

And only now I see how the years ran away

 

[Chorus] Bb C

Yesterday, when I was young F Bb

So many drinking songs were waiting to be sung Gm A

So many wayward pleasures lay in store for me Dm

And so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see Bb C

I ran so fast that time and youth at last ran out F Bb

I never stopped to think what life was all about Gm A

And every conversation I can now recall Dm

Concerned itself with me, me and nothing else at all.

 

[Verse 3] Gm C

Yesterday the moon was blue F Bb

And every crazy day brought something new to do Gm A

I used my magic age as if it were a wand Dm

And never saw the waste and emptiness beyond.

 

[Verse 4] Dm Gm C

The game of love I played with arrogance and pride F Bb

And every flame I lit too quickly, quickly died. Gm A

The friends I made all seemed somehow to drift away Dm

And only I am left on stage to end the play.

 

[Outro] Bb C

There are so many songs in me that won’t be sung F Bb

I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue Gm A

The time has come for me to pay for yesterday Dm

When I was…young

A

Young

Dm

Young