Edge of Seventeen

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

Ooh, baby, ooh, said ooh

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 (Everything stops)

Nothing else mattered

He was no more than a baby then (He was no more)

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, baby, ooh, said ooh

Just like the white winged dove

Sings a song, sounds like she's singing

Said ooh, baby, ooh, said ooh

Well, I went today

Maybe I will go again tomorrow

Yeah, yeah, well, the music there

Well, it was hauntingly familiar

When I see you doing

What I try to do for me with their

Words from a poet and a voice from a choir

And a melody

And nothing else mattered

Just like the white winged dove

Sings a song, sounds like she's singing

Ooh, baby, ooh, said ooh

Just like the white winged dove

Sings a song, sounds like she's singing

Said ooh, baby, ooh, said ooh

The clouds never expect it when it rains

But the sea changes color

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 singing

Ooh, baby, ooh, said ooh

Just like the white winged dove

Sings a song, sounds like she's singing

Ooh, baby, ooh, said ooh

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

When I went searching for an answer

Up the stairs and down the hall

But not to find an answer

Just to hear the call

Of a nightbird

Singing, "Come away" (Come away, come away)

Just like the white winged dove

Sings a song, sounds like she's singing

Ooh, baby, ooh, said ooh

Just like the white winged dove

Sings a song, sounds like she's singing

Ooh, baby, ooh, said ooh

Well, I hear you (Well, I hear you)

In the morning (In the morning)

And I hear you (And I hear you)

At nightfall (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)

My love

Just like the white winged dove

Sings a song, sounds like she's singing

Ooh, baby, ooh, said ooh

Just like the white winged dove

Sings a song, sounds like she's singing

Ooh, baby, ooh, said ooh