Edge Of Seventeen Lyrics

     Just like the white winged dove...
     Sings a song...
     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

     Just like the white winged dove...
     Sings a song...
     Sounds like she's singing...
     ooo baby... ooo... said ooo...
     Just like the white winged dove...
     Sings a song...
     Sounds like she's singing...
     Ooo baby... ooo... said ooo

     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 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...
     ooo baby... ooo... said ooo
     Just like the white winged dove...
     Sings a song...
     Sounds like she's singing...
     Ooo baby... ooo... said ooo

     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

     Just like the white winged dove...
     Sings a song...
     Sounds like she's singing...
     Ooo baby... ooo... said ooo
     Just like the white winged dove...
     Sings a song...
     Sounds like she's singing...
     Ooo baby... ooo... said ooo

     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...

     Just like the white winged dove...
     Sings a song
     Sounds like she's singing...
     Ooo... baby ooo... said ooo
     Just like the white winged dove...
     Sings a song...
     Sounds like she's singing...
     Ooo... baby ooo... said ooo

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