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

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

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

I went today

Maybe I will go again tomorrow

And the music there

It was hauntingly familiar

When 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

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

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 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

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, 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 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

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