Karaoke Track: At Seventeen by Janis Ian (Doctor Music)

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At Seventeen

I learned the truth
at seventeen

That love was meant

for beauty queens..

And high school girls

with clear skin smiles

Who married young

and then retired...

The Valentines

I never knew

The Friday night

charades of youth..

Were spent on one

more beautiful
At seventeen

I learned the truth...

And thqse of us

with ravaged faces

Lacking in

the social graces..

Desperately

remained at home

Inventing lovers

on the phor.e..

ancalled To sgiy

Come dance with me
And murmured

faint ol nsenities..

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It isn&#39;t all

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AtI Seventeen.

A brown-eyed girl

in hand- me-downs

Whose name I neyer

could pronounce.

Said pity please

the) ones who serve

I&#39;hey only get

what they deserve...

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Amii ha&#39;ven

for the elderly....

Femember those
who win the game

&#39; .Lose the love

they sought to gain..

in dull surprise

When? payment due

Exheeds accounts

received

To tLEose of us
who knew the pain

The Valentines

that. never came.

And those whose Hamegi

were nex&#39;ler calletJL
When choosing sides

for basketball...

It was long ago

and far away

The world was younger

than today..

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..

They call and say

Come dance with me

And murmur vague

obsenities..

At ugly girls like me

At seventeen. ..