Edge of Seventeen

Just like the white winged dove Sings a song, sounds like she's singin' Oh, oh, oh Just like the white winged dove Sings a song, sounds like she's singin' Oh, baby, oh, said oh And the days go by Like a strand in the wind In the web that is my own I begin again Said to myself, baby Nothin' else mattered He was no more (he was no more) Than a baby then Well, he seemed broken hearted Somethin' within him But the moment That I first laid Eyes on him All alone on the edge of seventeen Just like the white winged dove Sings a song, sounds like she's singin' Oh, baby oh, said oh Just like the white winged dove Sings a song, sounds like she's singin' Oh, baby, oh, said oh Well, I went today Maybe I will go again Tomorrow, yeah, yeah Well, the music there It was hauntingly familiar Well I see you doin' What I try to do for me With the words from a poet And a voice from a choir And a melody Nothin' else mattered Just like the white winged dove Sings a song, sounds like she's singin' Oh, baby, oh, said oh Just like the white winged dove Sings a song, sounds like she's singin' Oh, baby, oh, said oh The clouds never expect it when it rains But the sea changes colours But the sea does not change So with the slow graceful flow of age I went forth with an age old Desire to please On the edge of seventeen Just like the white winged dove Sings a song, sounds like she's singin' Oh, baby, oh, said oh Just like the white winged dove Sings a song, sounds like she's singin' Oh, baby, oh, said oh 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 When 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 singin' Come away Come away Come away Just like the white winged dove Sings a song, sounds like she's singin' Oh, baby, oh, said oh Just like the white winged dove Sings a song, sounds like she's singin' Oh, baby, oh, said oh Well, I hear you In the morning And I hear you At nightfall Sometimes to be near you Is to be unable to hear you, my love I'm a few years older than you I'm a few years older than you Just like the white winged dove Sings a song, sounds like she's singin' Oh, oh, oh Just like the white winged dove Sings a song, sounds like she's singin' Oh, oh, oh