Only Yesterday
- Recorded by: The Carpenters
- From the 1975 album, Horizon
- Written by: Richard Carpenter and J.
Bettis
After long enough of being alone,
Everyone must face their share of loneliness.
In my own time nobody knew,
The pain I was goin' through
And waitin' was all my heart could do.
Hope was all I had until you came.
Maybe you can't see how much you mean to me.
You were the dawn breaking the night,
The promise of morning light,
Filling the world surrounding me.
When I hold you
Baby, baby, feels like maybe, things will be all right
Baby, baby, your love's made me
Free as a song, singin' forever
Chorus:
Only yesterday when I was sad and I was lonely,
You showed me the way to leave the past and all its tears behind me.
Tomorrow maybe even brighter than today,
Since I threw my sadness away,
Only yesterday.
I have found my home here in your arms;
Nowhere else on earth I'd really rather be.
Life waits for us, share it with me --
The best is about to be,
So much is left for us to see.
When I hold you
Baby, baby, feels like maybe, things will be all right
Baby, baby, your love's made me
Free as a song, singin' forever
Only yesterday when I was sad and I was lonely,
You showed me the way to leave the past and all its tears behind me.
Tomorrow maybe even brighter than today,
Since I threw my sadness away,
Only yesterday.
(Only yester, only yesterday...)
Repeat chorus to fade
