At Seventeen-DHT & Edmée/DHT/Edmée

[ti:At Seventeen] [ar:D.H.T.] [al:Listen To Your Heart] [by:] [offset:0] [00:01.02]I learned the truth at seventeen [00:04.38]That love was meant 4 beauty queens [00:08.01]And high school girls with clear skinned smiles [00:11.88]Who married young and then retired [00:14.93] [00:19.49]The valentines I never knew [00:22.92]The Friday night charades of youth [00:26.48]Were spent on one more beautiful [00:30.41]At seventeen I learned the truth [00:33.83] [00:37.76]And those of us with ravaged faces [00:41.13] [00:41.67]Lacking in social graces [00:45.30]Desperately remained at home [00:48.78]Inventing lovers on the phone [00:52.59]Who called to say come dance with me [00:56.09]And murmured vague obscenities [00:59.46] [01:00.86]It isn't all it seems at seventeen [01:05.35] [01:15.08]A brown eyed girl in hand me downs [01:18.27]Whose name I could never pronounce [01:22.00]Said pity please the ones who serve [01:25.88]They only get what they deserve [01:29.56]The rich relationed hometown queen [01:33.12]Marries into what she needs [01:36.73]With a guarantee of company [01:40.41]And haven for the elderly [01:43.41] [01:47.84]Remember those who win the game [01:51.47]Lose the love they sought to gain [01:55.33]In debentures of quality and dubious integrity [02:02.63]Their small town eyes will gape at you [02:06.19]In dull surprise when payment due [02:10.06]Exceeds account received at seventeen [02:16.26] [02:35.85]To those of us who knew the pain [02:39.41]Of valentines that never came [02:43.21]And those whose names were never called [02:46.90]When choosing sides for basketball [02:49.76] [02:50.63]It was long ago and far away [02:54.20]The world was younger than today [02:57.82]When dreams were all they gave for free [03:01.55]To ugly duckling girls like me [03:05.12] [03:08.62]We all play the game and when we dare [03:12.73]To cheat ourselves at solitaire [03:15.85] [03:16.60]Inventing lovers on the phone [03:20.22]Repenting other lives unknown [03:23.83]Who call and say come dance with me [03:27.46]And murmur vague obscenities [03:30.43] [03:32.51]To ugly girls like me at seventeen