"Last Night When We Were Young" — Arlen and Harburg's 1935 rapid aging.
Writer(s): arlen/hapburg
Last night when we were young
Love was a star
A song unsung
Life was so new
So real so right
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 splended
Could slip away in one little daybreak
So now lets reminisce and recollect the sighs and the kisses
The arms that clung
When we were young last night
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- Written by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg in 1935. The previous night's happiness observed from the present morning as if decades had passed — the peculiar aging that happens between a passionate night and its cold sober aftermath.