Yesterday Once More – English Lyrics

• By: Redd Kross

Lyrics & Translation

[English]

♪♪ WHEN I WAS YOUNG♪

♪♪ I'D LISTEN TO THE RADIO ♪♪

♪♪ WAITIN' FOR MY FAVORITE SONG ♪♪

♪♪ WHEN THEY PLAYED, I'D SING ALONG ♪♪

♪♪ IT MADE ME SMILE♪

♪♪ THOSE WERE SUCH HAPPY TIMES ♪♪

♪♪ AND NOT SO LONG AGO ♪♪

♪♪ HOW I WONDER WHERE THEY'VE GONE ♪♪

♪♪ BUT THEY'RE BACK AGAIN ♪♪

♪♪ JUST LIKE A LONG LOST FRIEND ♪♪

♪♪ ALL THE SONGS I LOVED SO WELL ♪♪

♪♪ EVERY SHA-LA-LA-LA ♪♪

♪♪ EVERY WHOA-OA-OA-OA ♪♪

♪♪ STILL SHINES ♪♪

♪♪ EVERY SHING-A-LING-A-LING ♪♪

♪♪ THAT THEY'RE STARTIN' TO SING'S ♪♪

♪♪ SO FINE ♪♪

♪♪ WHEN THEY GET TO THE PART ♪♪

♪♪ WHERE HE'S BREAKIN' HER HEART ♪♪

♪♪ IT CAN REALLY MAKE ME CRY ♪♪

♪♪ JUST LIKE BEFORE ♪♪

♪♪ IT'S YESTERDAY ONCE MORE ♪♪

♪♪ LOOKIN' BACK ON HOW IT WAS ♪♪

♪♪ IN YEARS GONE BY ♪♪

♪♪ AND THE GOOD TIMES THAT I HAD ♪♪

♪♪ MAKES TODAY SEEM RATHER SAD ♪♪

♪♪ SO MUCH HAS CHANGED ♪♪

♪♪ IT WAS THE SONGS OF LOVE ♪♪

♪♪ THAT I WOULD SING TO THEN ♪♪

♪♪ AND I'D MEMORIZE EACH WORD ♪♪

♪♪ THOSE OLD MELODIES ♪♪

♪♪ STILL SOUND SO GOOD TO ME ♪♪

♪♪ AS THEY MELT THE YEARS AWAY ♪♪

♪♪ EVERY SHA-LA-LA-LA ♪♪

♪♪ EVERY WHOA-OA-OA-OA ♪♪

♪♪ STILL SHINES ♪♪

♪♪ EVERY SHING-A-LING-A-LING ♪♪

♪♪ THAT THEY'RE STARTIN' TO SING'S ♪♪

♪♪ SO FINE ♪♪

♪♪ ALL MY BEST MEMORIES ♪♪

♪♪ COME BACK CLEARLY TO ME ♪♪

♪♪ SOME CAN EVEN MAKE ME CRY ♪♪

♪♪ JUST LIKE BEFORE ♪♪

♪♪ IT'S YESTERDAY ONCE MORE ♪♪

♪♪ YESTERDAY ONCE MORE ♪♪

♪♪ SHA-LA-LA-LA-LA ♪♪

♪♪ EVERY WHOA-OA-OA-OA ♪♪

♪♪ STILL SHINES ♪♪

♪♪ EVERY SHING-A-LING-A-LING ♪♪

♪♪ THAT THEY'RE STARTIN' TO SING'S ♪♪

♪♪ SO FINE ♪♪

♪♪ EVERY SHA-LA-LA-LA ♪♪

♪♪ EVERY WHOA-OA-OA-OA ♪♪

♪♪ STILL SHINES ♪♪

♪♪ EVERY SHING-A-LING-A-LING ♪♪

♪♪ THAT THEY'RE STARTIN' TO SING'S ♪♪

♪♪ SO FINE ♪♪

♪♪ SO FINE ♪♪

♪♪ SO FINE ♪♪

♪♪ SO FINE ♪♪♪♪

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Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
young /jʌŋ/ A1	adjective - not old; having lived for a short time
listen /ˈlɪsən/ A1	verb - to give attention with the ear
radio /ˈreɪdi.oʊ/ A2	noun - a device that receives broadcast signals
favorite /ˈfeɪvərɪt/ A2	adjective - most liked or preferred
song /sɔŋ/ A1	noun - a short piece of music with words
smile /smaɪl/ A1	verb - to form one's lips into a pleased expression noun - an expression of happiness shown on the face
happy /ˈhæpi/ A1	adjective - feeling or showing pleasure and contentment
wonder /ˈwʌndər/ B1	verb - to feel curiosity about something noun - a feeling of curiosity or amazement
friend /frɛnd/ A1	noun - a person with whom one has a bond of mutual affection
love /lʌv/ A1	noun - a deep affection for someone or something verb - to feel deep affection for someone
heart /hɑrt/ A2	noun - the organ that pumps blood; the centre of emotions
cry /kraɪ/ A1	verb - to shed tears, usually out of emotion noun - an act of shedding tears
yesterday /ˈjɛstərdi/ A1	noun - the day before today
memory /ˈmɛməri/ B1	noun - the mental faculty of retaining and recalling past experiences
change /tʃeɪndʒ/ A2	verb - to make or become different noun - the act or result of making something different
melody /ˈmɛlədi/ B2	noun - a sequence of musical notes that is pleasant to hear
sound /saʊnd/ A2	noun - vibration that travels through the air and can be heard verb - to emit a sound; to seem or appear to be
clear /klɪr/ A2	adjective - easy to perceive, understand, or interpret verb - to remove or get rid of something obstructing

Key Grammar Structures

• When I was young, I'd listen to the radio.

  ➔ Past habit using 'would' to describe repeated actions in the past.

  ➔ The word 'would' is used here to describe something that happened regularly in the past.

• Those were such happy times.

  ➔ Past simple used to describe a completed time in the past.

  ➔ 'Were' is the past form of 'be', showing that the situation happened in the past.

• How I wonder where they've gone.

  ➔ Present perfect to show an action with a connection to the present.

  ➔ 'They've gone' means they left and are still not back now.

• They're back again, just like a long lost friend.

  ➔ Present continuous used to describe a current state or situation.

  ➔ 'They're back' shows the return happening now — a current situation.

• When they get to the part where he's breaking her heart.

  ➔ Complex sentence with time clause and continuous tense.

  ➔ 'He’s breaking' uses present continuous to describe ongoing emotional action.

• Looking back on how it was in years gone by.

  ➔ Gerund phrase used as an expression of reflection.

  ➔ 'Looking back' functions as a gerund to start a reflective clause.

• So much has changed.

  ➔ Present perfect to describe change up to now.

  ➔ 'Has changed' shows that the transformation began in the past and continues to the present.

• Those old melodies still sound so good to me.

  ➔ Present simple describing general truth or feeling.

  ➔ 'Sound' expresses an ongoing truth about how the melodies affect the speaker.

• All my best memories come back clearly to me.

  ➔ Present simple for habitual truth or mental action.

  ➔ 'Come back' expresses that memories return naturally as a regular mental experience.