At Seventeen - D.H.T.

[00:01.16]I learned the truth at seventeen
[00:04.56]That love was meant 4 beauty queens
[00:08.27]And high school girls with clear skinned smiles
[00:12.05]Who married young and then retired
[00:19.85]The valentines I never knew
[00:23.02]The friday night charades of youth
[00:26.83]Were spent on one more beautiful
[00:30.54]At seventeen i learned the truth
[00:37.76]And those of us with ravaged faces
[00:41.91]Lacking in social graces
[00:45.71]Desperately remained at home
[00:48.99]Inventing lovers on the phone
[00:52.81]Who called to say come dance with me
[00:56.43]And murmured vague obscenities
[01:01.35]It isn’t all it seems at seventeen
[01:15.19]A brown eyed girl in hand me downs
[01:18.46]Whose name I could never pronounce
[01:22.32]Said - pity please the ones who serve
[01:26.36]They only get what they deserve
[01:29.43]The rich relationed hometown queen
[01:33.36]Marries into what she needs
[01:36.86]With a guarantee of company
[01:40.69]And haven for the elderly
[01:47.91]Remember those who win the game
[01:51.95]Lose the love they sought to gain
[01:55.46]In debentures of quality and dubious integrity
[02:02.74]Their small town eyes will gape at you
[02:06.79]In dull surprise when payment due
[02:11.38]Exceeds account received at seventeen
[02:36.03]To those of us who knew the pain
[02:39.52]Of valentines that never came
[02:43.4]And those whose names were never called
[02:47.34]When choosing sides for basketball
[02:51.04001]It was long ago and far away
[02:54.54001]The world was younger than today
[02:58.15]When dreams were all they gave for free
[03:02.42]To ugly duckling girls like me
[03:08.76]We all play the game and when we dare
[03:13.14]To cheat ourselves at solitaire
[03:16.75]Inventing lovers on the phone
[03:20.47]Repenting other lives unknown
[03:24.08]Who call and say - come dance with me
[03:27.68]And murmur vague obscenities
[03:32.39]To ugly girls like me, at seventeen