[ti:at seventeen][ar:齊豫][al:tears][by:pinkrain][offset:500][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 seventeenhttp://lrc.bzmtv.com