Marc Almond - Yesterday When I Was Young Lyrics

Marc Almond - Yesterday When I Was Young Video

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 the candle flame

A 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

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, me, 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

That 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 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, young, young,......young

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Marc Almond - The Days Of Pearly Spencer Lyrics

Marc Almond - The Days Of Pearly Spencer Video

A tenement, a dirty street

Walked and worn by shoeless feet

Inside it's long and so complete

Watched by a shivering sun

 

Old eyes in a small child's face

Watching as the shadows race

Through walls and cracks and leave no trace

And daylight's brightness shuns

 

The days of Pearly Spencer

Ahh Ahh

The race is almost run

 

Nose pressed hard on frosted glass

Gazing as the swollen mass

On concrete fields where grows no grass

He stumbles blindly on

 

Iron trees smother the air

But withering they stand and stare

Through eyes that neither know nor care

Where the grass has gone

 

The days of Pearly Spencer

Ahh Ahh

The race is almost run

 

Pearly where's your milk white skin

What's that stubble on your chin

It's buried in the rot-gut gin

You played and lost not won

 

You played a house that can't be beat

Now look your head's bowed in defeat

You walked too far along the street

Where only rats can run

 

The days of Pearly Spencer

Ahh Ahh

The race is almost run

The days of Pearly Spencer

Ahh Ahh

The race is almost run

The race is almost run

 

A tenement, a dirty street

Remember worn and shoeless feet

Remember how you stood to beat

The way your life had gone

 

So Pearly don't you shed more tears

For those best forgotten years

Those tenements are memories

Of where you've risen from

 

The days of Pearly Spencer

Ahh Ahh

The race is almost won

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