At Seventeen-苏姗

[ti:At Seventeen] [ar:苏姗] [al:Colors of Suzan] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]At Seventeen - 苏姗 [00:17.96]I learned the truth at seventeen [00:21.20] [00:22.82]That love was meant for beauty queens [00:25.62] [00:27.24]And high school girls with clear-skinned smiles [00:30.96] [00:31.59]Who married young and then retired [00:34.39] [00:44.06]The valentines I never knew [00:47.39] [00:48.93]The Friday night charades of youth [00:52.14] [00:53.28]Were spent on one more beautiful [00:55.36] [00:57.71]At seventeen I learned the truth [01:00.58] [01:05.82]And those of us with ravaged faces [01:09.11] [01:11.04]Lacking in the social graces [01:13.60] [01:14.95]Desperately remained at home [01:19.11]Inventing lovers on the phone [01:23.24]Who called to say "Come dance with me" [01:27.77]And murmured vague obscenities [01:32.92]It isn't all it seems at seventeen [01:36.93] [01:40.89]A brown-eyed girl in hand-me-downs [01:45.10]Whose name I never could pronounce [01:50.16]Said "Pity please the ones who serve [01:54.49]'Cause they only get what they deserve" [02:01.97] [02:06.69]And the rich relationed hometown queen [02:11.59]Marries into what she needs [02:15.48]With a guarantee of company [02:18.95] [02:20.85]And haven for the elderly [02:28.69]So remember those who win the game [02:33.37]Lose the love they sought to gain [02:36.53] [02:37.76]In debentures of quality and dubious integrity [02:44.87] [02:46.40]Their small town eyes will gape at you [02:50.79]In dull surprise when payment due [02:55.62]Exceeds accounts received at seventeen [02:59.92] [03:21.32]To those of us who knew the pain [03:26.07]Of valentines that never came [03:29.97]And those whose names were never called [03:34.81]When choosing sides for basketball [03:40.68]It was long ago and far away [03:45.32]The world was younger than today [03:48.27] [03:49.63]When dreams were all they gave for free [03:52.92] [03:54.43]To ugly duckling girls like me [03:57.41] [04:02.11]We all play the game and when we dare [04:07.10]To cheat ourselves at solitaire [04:11.46]Inventing lovers on the phone [04:16.07]Repenting other lives unknown [04:20.14]They call and say "Come dance with me" [04:24.61]And murmur vague obscenities [04:27.17] [04:29.55]At ugly girls like me at seventeen