Last Night When We Were Young

Last Night When We Were Young
music by Harold Arlen (left)
lyric by E.Y. "Yip" Harburg (right)

Last night when we were young, love was a star, a song unsung.
Life was so new, so real so bright, ages ago last night.
Today the world is old, you flew away and time grew cold,
Where is that star that shone so bright, ages ago last night?

To think that spring had depended on merely this, a look, a kiss.
To think that something so splendid could slip away in one little daybreak,
So now let's reminisce and recollect the sighs and the kisses,
The arms that clung when we were young last night.