At Seventeen-齐豫

[ti:At Seventeen] [ar:齐豫] [al:Another Chapter] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]At Seventeen - 齐豫 [00:16.81]I learned the truth at seventeen [00:20.60]That love was meant for beauty queens [00:24.51]And high school girls with clear-skinned smiles [00:28.38]Who married young and then retired [00:36.48]The valentines I never knew [00:40.27]The Friday night charades of youth [00:44.64]Were spent on one more beautiful [00:49.23]At seventeen I learned the truth [00:56.02]And those of us with ravaged faces [01:00.59]Lacking in the social graces [01:04.08]Desperately remained at home [01:07.99]Inventing lovers on the phone [01:11.62]Who called to say "Come dance with me" [01:16.68]And murmured vague obscenities [01:20.64]It isn't all it seems [01:23.51]At seventeen [01:27.48]A brown-eyed girl in hand-me-downs [01:31.86]Whose name I never could pronounce [01:35.91]Said "Pity please the ones who serve [01:40.22]They only get what they deserve" [01:46.65]And the rich relationed hometown queen [01:51.33]Marries into what she needs [01:54.51]With a guarantee of company [01:58.65]And haven for the elderly [02:06.97]Remember those who win the game [02:10.94]Lose the love they sought to gain [02:14.64]In debentures of quality [02:18.59]And dubious integrity [02:22.42]Their small town eyes will gape at you [02:26.26]In dull surprise when payment due [02:31.44]Exceeds accounts received [02:34.31]At seventeen [03:21.26]To those of us who knew the pain [03:25.35]Of valentines that never came [03:29.87]And those whose names were never called [03:34.39]When choosing sides for basketball [03:40.67]It was long ago and far away [03:45.75]The world was younger than today [03:50.21]When dreams were all they gave for free [03:54.01]To ugly duckling girls like me [04:00.22]We all play the game and when we dare [04:05.43]To cheat ourselves at solitaire [04:08.93]Inventing lovers on the phone [04:12.68]Repenting other lives unknown [04:16.75]They call and say "Come dance with me" [04:21.48]And murmur vague obscenities [04:25.42]At ugly girls like me [04:28.59]At seventeen