Seventeen

Used to be a major scale

But the melody went stale

Musical cacophony let

Eensy Weensy spider free

You're a rich little boy

Who's had to work for his toys

You've got all the sensibilities

Of an upper class guy



No I'm not your little slave

No I don't twist and turn that way

Only got bad things to say

You're always asking what is up with me



Could never tell you what happened

The day I turned seventeen

The rise of a king and the fall of a queen

Seventeen, seventeen



Oh, you are embarrassed of me

'Cos I use my tongue freely

Bet you wish I couldn't speak

'Cos when I do, you know

I tell you why you're being weak

You want a hassle free life

Go get your upper class wife

Oh, she's got all the personality

Of a lemon that has been

Truly sucked dry



You teach me how to behave

I felt you question the way

I was brought up as a baby

Well you don't know fuck about my family



Could never tell you what happened

The day I turned seventeen

The rise of a king and the fall of a queen

Seventeen, seventeen



Never fell down like a princess

I used to kid myself in this stress

That it was just how things

Were meant to be

Oh, seventeen, seventeen.