Artist: | Janis Ian (English) |
User: | Rob Harris |
Duration: | 130 seconds |
Delay: | 12 seconds |
Chord names: | Not defined |
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Comment: | - |
Janice Ian
At Seventeen
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I learned the truth at seventeen___ that love was meant for beauty queens
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and high school with clear skinned smiles__ who married young & then
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retired the valentines
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I never knew the Fri-----day nights charades of youth
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Were spent on one as beautiful ____ At seventeen I learned the truth
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And those of us with ravaged faces lacking in the
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Social graces desp`rately remained at home inventing lovers on the
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Phone who called to say come dance with me and murmured vague
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obscenities it isn’t all it seems at seventeen
A brown eyed girl in hand me downs, whose name I never could pronounce
Said, pity , please , the one who serve, they only get what they deserve
The rich-relationed home-town queen marries into what she needs,
A guarantee of company and haven for the elderly
Remember those who win the game lose the love they sought to gain
In debentures of quality and dubious integrity.
Their small town eyes will gape at you in dull surprise when payment due
Exceeds accounts received at s
To those of us who know the pain of valentines that never came
and those whose name were never called when choosing sides for basketball
was long ago and far •way. The world was younger then today
they gave for free to ugly duckling girls like me. And dreams all
they gave for free to ugly duckling girls like me.
We all play the game, and when we dare to cheat ourselves at
solitaire, Inventing lovers on the phone, repenting other lives
unknown that call and say come dance with me and vague
obscenities at ugly girls like me at seventeen