[ti:at seventeen]
[ar:齊豫]
[al:tears]

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[00:10]At Seventeen
[00:16]I learned the truth at seventeen
[00:20]That love was meant for beauty queens
[00:24]And high school girls with clear siknned smiles
[00:28]Who married young and then retired
[00:36]The Valentines I never knew
[00:40]The Friday night charades of youth
[00:44]Were spent on one more beautiful
[00:49]At seventeen I learned the truth
[00:56]And those of us with ravaged faces
[01:00]Lacking in the social graces
[01:04]Desperately remained at home
[01:08]Inventing lovers on the phone
[01:12]Who called to say Come dance with me"
[01:16]And murmured vague obscenities
[01:20]It isn't all it seems at seventeen
[01:27]A brown-eyed girl in hand me downs
[01:31]Whose name I never could pronounce
[01:35]Said"Pity please the ones who serve,
[01:40]They only get what they deserve"
[01:46]And the rich relationed home town queen
[01:50]Marries into what she needs
[01:54]With a guarantee of company and haven for the elderly
[02:06]Remember those who with the game
[02:10]Lose the love they sought to gain
[02:14]In debentures of quality and dubious integrity
[02:22]The small town eyes would gape at you in dull surprise
[02:29]When payment due exceeds accounts received at seventeen
[03:20]To those of us who knew the pain
[03:24]Of Valentines that never came
[03:29]And those whose names were never called
[03:33]When choosing sides for basketball
[03:40]It was long ago and far away
[03:44]The world was younger than today
[03:48]And dreams were all they gave for free
[03:53]To ugly duckling girls like me 
[03:59]We all played the game and when we dared
[04:04]To cheat ourselves at solitaire
[04:08]Inverting lovers on the phone
[04:12]Repenting other lives unknown
[04:15]They call and say "Come dance with me"
[04:20]And murmur vague obscenities
[04:24]At ugly girls like me--at seventeen