[ti:at seventeen]
[ar:齐豫]
[al:tears]
[by:]
[00:09.50]At Seventeen
[00:15.50]I learned the truth at seventeen
[00:19.50]That love was meant for beauty queens
[00:23.50]And high school girls with clear siknned smiles
[00:27.50]Who married young and then retired
[00:35.50]The Valentines I never knew
[00:39.50]The Friday night charades of youth
[00:43.50]Were spent on one more beautiful
[00:48.50]At seventeen I learned the truth
[00:55.50]And those of us with ravaged faces
[00:59.50]Lacking in the social graces
[01:03.50]Desperately remained at home
[01:07.50]Inventing lovers on the phone
[01:11.50]Who called to say Come dance with me"
[01:15.50]And murmured vague obscenities
[01:19.50]It isn't all it seems at seventeen
[01:26.50]A brown-eyed girl in hand me downs
[01:30.50]Whose name I never could pronounce
[01:34.50]Said"Pity please the ones who serve,
[01:39.50]They only get what they deserve"
[01:45.50]And the rich relationed home town queen
[01:49.50]Marries into what she needs
[01:53.50]With a guarantee of company and haven for the elderly
[02:05.50]Remember those who with the game
[02:09.50]Lose the love they sought to gain
[02:13.50]In debentures of quality and dubious integrity
[02:21.50]The small town eyes would gape at you in dull surprise
[02:28.50]When payment due exceeds accounts received at seventeen
[03:19.50]To those of us who knew the pain
[03:23.50]Of Valentines that never came
[03:28.50]And those whose names were never called
[03:32.50]When choosing sides for basketball
[03:39.50]It was long ago and far away
[03:43.50]The world was younger than today
[03:47.50]And dreams were all they gave for free
[03:52.50]To ugly duckling girls like me
[03:58.50]We all played the game and when we dared
[04:03.50]To cheat ourselves at solitaire
[04:07.50]Inverting lovers on the phone
[04:11.50]Repenting other lives unknown
[04:14.50]They call and say "Come dance with me"
[04:19.50]And murmur vague obscenities
[04:23.50]At ugly girls like me--at seventeen