At Seventeen-Audio Idols

[ti:At Seventeen] [ar:Audio Idols] [al:Lazy Afternoon: Pop Favourites] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]At Seventeen - Audio Idols (音频偶像) [00:07.89]I learned the truth at seventeen [00:10.86] [00:11.95]That love was meant for beauty queens [00:14.89] [00:15.75]And high school girls with clear skinned smiles [00:18.93] [00:19.67]Who married young and then retired [00:22.22] [00:26.91]The valentine's I never knew [00:29.60] [00:31.20]The Friday night charades of youth [00:33.78] [00:35.33]Were spent on one more beautiful [00:37.42] [00:39.21]At seventeen I learned the truth [00:41.80] [00:45.63]And those of us with ravaged faces [00:49.34]Lacking in the social graces [00:52.58] [00:53.38]Desperately remained at home [00:56.75]Inventing lovers on the phone [00:59.80] [01:01.00]Who called to say [01:02.41]Come dance with me [01:03.66] [01:05.72]And murmured vague obscenities [01:07.98] [01:09.17]It isn't all it seems at seventeen [01:12.89] [01:16.15]A brown eyed girl in hand me downs [01:19.34]Whose name I never could pronounce [01:22.63] [01:23.48]Said "Pity please the one's who serve [01:27.05]They only get what they deserve" [01:30.18] [01:32.21]The rich relationed hometown queen [01:37.71] [01:38.92]Marries into what she needs [01:41.45] [01:42.00]With a guarantee of company [01:45.09] [01:45.93]And haven for the elderly [01:48.66] [01:53.66]Remember those who win the game [01:56.64] [01:57.83]Lose the love they sought to gain [02:00.50] [02:01.43]In debentures of quality [02:04.11] [02:04.76]And dubious integrity [02:07.93] [02:08.72]Their small town eyes will gape at you [02:11.95] [02:12.94]In dull surprise when payment due [02:15.87] [02:16.62]Exceeds accounts received at seventeen [02:21.14] [02:31.67]To those of us who knew the pain [02:34.38] [02:36.03]Of valentines that never came [02:38.25] [02:40.31]And those whose names were never called [02:42.48] [02:44.00]When choosing sides for basketball [02:46.54] [02:49.09]It was long ago and far away [02:53.00] [02:55.05]The world was younger than today [02:57.22] [02:59.07]When dreams were all they gave for free [03:01.49] [03:02.51]To ugly duckling girls like me [03:06.20] [03:08.99]We all play the game and when we dare [03:12.28] [03:13.35]To cheat ourselves at solitaire [03:16.10] [03:16.69]Inventing lovers on the phone [03:19.62] [03:20.31]Repenting other lives unknown [03:23.47] [03:24.10]Who call and say come dance with me [03:27.41] [03:28.13]And murmur vague obscenities [03:31.46] [03:32.29]To ugly girls like me at seventeen