Edge of Seventeen (Early Take)

Just like the white winged dove

Sings a song

Sounds like she's singing

Ooh, ooh, ooh

Just like the white winged dove

Sings a song

Sounds like she's singing

Who who who

Oh baby

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 (Everything stopped)

But nothing 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

Just like the white winged dove

Sings a song

Sounds like she's singing

Ooh, ooh, ooh

Oh baby

Just like the white winged dove

Sings a song

Sounds like she's singing

Ooh, ooh, ooh

Oh baby

I went today maybe I will go again

Tomorrow

And the music there it was

Hauntingly familiar

And I see you doing

What I try to do for me

With the words from a poet

And a voice from a choir

And a melody

Just like the white winged dove

Sings a song

Sounds like she's singing

Ooh, ooh, ooh

Like the white winged dove

Sings a song

Sounds like she's singing

Ooh, ooh, ooh

Oh baby

And the clouds never expect it

When it rains

But the sea changes colors

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

Just like the white winged dove

Sings a song

Sounds like she's singing

Ooh, ooh, ooh

Oh baby

Just like the white winged dove

Sings a song

Sounds like she's singing

Ooh, ooh, ooh

Oh baby

Well then suddenly

There was no one left standing

In the hall

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

Just like the white winged dove

Sings a song

Sounds like she's singing

Ooh, ooh, ooh

Oh baby

Just like the white winged dove

Sings a song

Sounds like she's singing

Ooh, ooh, ooh

Oh baby

Well I hear you in the morning

And I hear you

At nightfall

Sometime to be near you

Is to be unable to hear you

My love

I'm a few years older than you

Just like the white winged dove

Sings a song

Sounds like she's singing

Ooh, ooh, ooh

Oh baby

Just like the white winged dove

Sings a song

Sounds like she's singing

Ooh, ooh, ooh

Oh baby

Just like the white winged dove

Sings a song

Sounds like she's singing

Ooh, ooh, ooh

Oh baby