Edge Of Seventeen

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Just like the white winged doves...

sings the song that sounds like she's singing ......

whoo...whoo...whoo

Just like the white winged dove...

sings a song...

Sounds like she's singing...

ooo...baby...ooo...said ooo



And the days go by....

like a strand in the wind

In the web that is my own...

I begin again

Said to my friend, baby...

Nothin' else mattered



He was no more...than a baby then

Well he... seemed broken hearted...

something within him

But the moment...that I first laid...

Eyes...on...him...all alone...

On the edge of...seventeen



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I went today...maybe I will go again...

tomorrow

And the music there well, it was hauntingly...

familiar

And I see you doing...

what I try to do for me

With the words from a poet...

and the voice from a choir

And a melody...nothing else mattered



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The clouds...never expect it...

when it rains

But the sea changes colours...

but the sea...

Does not change

And so...with the slow...graceful flow..

of age

I went forth...with an age old...

desire...to please

On the edge of...seventeen



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Well then suddenly...

there was no one...left standing

In the hall...yeah, yeah...

In a flood of tears

That no one really ever heard fall at all

Oh I went searchin' for an answer...

Up the stairs...and down the hall

Not to find an answer...

just to hear the call

Of a nightbird...singing...

come away...come away...



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Well I hear you in the morning...

and I hear you...

At nightfall...

sometime to be near you...

Is to be unable...to *GIVE* you...

my love...

I'm a few years older than you...

(I'm a few years older than you) my love



Just like the white winged dove...

sings a song...

Sounds like she's singing...

ooo baby...ooo...said ...(repeat)