Released: December 7, 1984
Songwriter: Lou Gramm Mick Jones (Foreigner)
Producer: Alex Sadkin Mick Jones (Foreigner)
[Verse 1]
I thought I knew you well
But all this time I could never tell
I let you get away
Haunts me every night and every day
You were the only one
The only friend that I counted on
How could I watch you walk away
I'd give anything to have you here today
But now I stand alone with my pride
And dream that you're still by my side
[Chorus]
But that was yesterday
I had the world in my hands
But it's not the end of my world
Just a slight change of plans
[Bridge]
That was yesterday
But today life goes on
No more hiding in yesterday
Because yesterday's gone
[Verse 2]
Love, my love I gave it all
Thought I saw the light
When I heard you call
Life that we both could share
Has deserted me
Left me in despair
But now I stand alone with my pride
Fighting back the tears I never let myself cry
[Chorus]
But that was yesterday
Love was torn from my hands
But it's not the end of my world
Just a little hard to understand
[Verse 3]
That was yesterday
But today life goes on
You won't find me in yesterday's world
Now yesterday's gone
[Outro]
Goodbye yesterday
Now it's over and done
Still I hope somewhere deep in your heart
Yesterday will live on
I thought I knew you well
But all this time I could never tell
I let you get away
Haunts me every night and every day
You were the only one
The only friend that I counted on
How could I watch you walk away
I'd give anything to have you here today
But now I stand alone with my pride
And dream that you're still by my side
[Chorus]
But that was yesterday
I had the world in my hands
But it's not the end of my world
Just a slight change of plans
[Bridge]
That was yesterday
But today life goes on
No more hiding in yesterday
Because yesterday's gone
[Verse 2]
Love, my love I gave it all
Thought I saw the light
When I heard you call
Life that we both could share
Has deserted me
Left me in despair
But now I stand alone with my pride
Fighting back the tears I never let myself cry
[Chorus]
But that was yesterday
Love was torn from my hands
But it's not the end of my world
Just a little hard to understand
[Verse 3]
That was yesterday
But today life goes on
You won't find me in yesterday's world
Now yesterday's gone
[Outro]
Goodbye yesterday
Now it's over and done
Still I hope somewhere deep in your heart
Yesterday will live on
The Definitive Collection
- Waiting for a Girl Like You
- Head Games
- Urgent
- That Was Yesterday
- Lowdown and Dirty
- I Want to Know What Love Is
- Reaction to Action
- Down on Love
- Heart Turns to Stone
- Say You Will
- I Don’t Want to Live Without You
- Just Between You and Me
- Midnight Blue
- Soul Doctor
- Break It Up
- Women
- Cold as Ice
- Juke Box Hero
- Rev on the Red Line
- Double Vision
- Dirty White Boy
- Feels Like the First Time
- Starrider
- Headknocker
- Hot Blooded
- Long, Long Way from Home
- Blue Morning, Blue Day
- At War with the World
- I Have Waited So Long
- Just Wanna Hold
- Agent Provocateur (1984)
- The Very Best... and Beyond (1992)
- The Definitive Collection (2006)
- Can’t Slow Down (2009)
- 40 (2017)
- I Want to Know What Love Is
- Juke Box Hero
- Waiting for a Girl Like You
- Cold as Ice
- Feels Like the First Time
- Urgent
- Hot Blooded
- Double Vision
- Head Games
- I Don’t Want to Live Without You
- Say You Will
- Dirty White Boy
- That Was Yesterday
- Rev on the Red Line
- Starrider (Live at the Bang Your Head Festival, Balingen, Germany, 2006)
- Not Fade Away
- Love Maker
- Soul Doctor
- Hot Blooded (Live)
- With Heaven on Our Side (radio edit)
- Ready Or Not
- Big Dog
- That’s All Right
- Prisoner of Love