YESTERDAY WHEN I WAS YOUNG Music & original French lyrics by: Charles Asnavour
English lyrics by: Herbert Kretzmer
Recorded by: Roy Clark (1965)
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 the day
and only now I see how the years ran away.
Yesterday when I was young
so many drinking 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.
Yesterday 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
and every flame I lit too quickly quickly died.
The friends I made all seemed somehow to drift away
and only I am left on stage to end the play.
There are so many songs in me that won't be sung,
I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue.
The time has come for me to pay for yesterday when I was young.
YOU ARE MY SONG (Louie Ocampo & Martin Nievera)
Recorded by Martin Nievera
You are the song
Playing so softly in my heart
I reach for you
You seem so near yet so far
I hope and I pray
You'll be with me someday
I know down inside
You are my and I'm your true love
Or am I dreaming...
How can I
Each time I try to say goodbye
You were there
You look my way I touch the sky
We can share tomorrow and forevermore
I'll be there to love you so
You are my song
I know for sure
That we were meant to fall in love
I look in your eyes
I know what you're thinking of
I try not to say
The words that might scare you away
I know down inside
You are my and I'm your true love
Please no more dreaming...
How can I
Each time I try to say goodbye
You were there
You look my way I touch the sky
We can share tomorrow and forevermore
I'll be there to love you so
You are my song
You are my song
We can share tomorrow and forevermore
I'll be there to love you so
You are my song
You are my song
YOU DON'T HAVE TO SAY YOU LOVE ME Dusty Springfield (?)
Recorded by Helen Reddy
When I said I needed you
You said you would always stay
It wasn't me who changed but you
And now you've gone away
Don't you see that now you've gone
And I'm left here on my own
That I have to follow you
And beg you to come home
You don't have to say you love me
Just be close at hand
You don't have to stay forever
I will understand
Believe me, believe me
I can't help but love you
But believe me, I'll never tie you down
Left alone with just a memory
Life seems dead and so unreal
All that's left is loneliness
There's nothing left to feel
You don't have to say you love me
Just be close at hand
You don't have to stay forever
I will understand
Believe me, believe me...
You don't have to say you love me
Just be close at hand
You don't have to stay forever
I will understand
Believe me, believe me, believe me
YOU MAKE ME FEEL BRAND NEW Recorded by The Stylistics
My love, I'll never find the words my love
To tell you how I feel my love
Mere words, could not explain
Precious love, you held my life within your hands
Created everything I am
Taught me how to live again
Only you, came when I needed a friend
Believed in me through thick and thin
This song is for you
Filled with gratitude and love...
God bless you
You make me feel brand new
For God bless me with you
You make me feel brand new
I sing this song 'cause you
Make me feel brand new
My love, whenever I was insecure
You built me up and made me sure
You gave my pride back to me
Precious friend, with you I'll always have a friend
You're someone who I can depend
To walk a path that sometimes bends
Without you, life has no meaning or rhyme
Like notes to a song out of time
How can I repay
You for having faith in me...
God bless you
You make me feel brand new
For God bless me with you
You make me feel brand new
I sing this song for you
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