[00:08.47]i learned the truth at seventeen

[00:12.98]

[00:13.44]that love was meant for beauty queens

[00:16.98]

[00:17.58]and high school girls with clear siknned smiles

[00:22.05]who married young and then retired

[00:26.60]

[00:28.75]the valentines i never knew

[00:33.26]the friday night charades of youth

[00:37.36]were spent on one more beautiful

[00:42.29]at seventeen i learned the truth

[00:46.13]

[00:49.20]and those of us with ravaged faces

[00:53.37]

[00:53.76]lacking in the social graces

[00:57.43]desperately remained at home

[01:02.30]inventing lovers on the phone

[01:05.52]who called to say come dance with me"

[01:10.25]and murmured vague obscenities

[01:13.14]

[01:15.10]it isn't all it seems at seventeen

[01:19.39]

[01:22.28]a brown-eyed girl in hand me downs

[01:25.98]

[01:26.51]whose name i never could pronounce

[01:31.20]said"pity please the ones who serve,

[01:34.67]they only get what they deserve"

[01:38.07]

[01:42.03]and the rich relationed home town queen

[01:45.98]

[01:46.96]marries into what she needs

[01:51.11]with a guarantee of company and haven for the elderly

[01:58.67]

[02:02.63]remember those who with the game

[02:06.99]lose the love they sought to gain

[02:10.44]in debentures of quality and dubious integrity

[02:19.09]the small town eyes would gape at you in dull surprise

[02:28.50]

[02:28.96]when payment due exceeds accounts received at seventeen

[02:37.10]

[02:56.14]to those of us who knew the pain

[03:00.91]of valentines that never came

[03:05.25]and those whose names were never called

[03:09.31]when choosing sides for basketball

[03:13.22]

[03:16.12]it was long ago and far away

[03:20.45]

[03:21.20]the world was younger than today

[03:24.29]

[03:25.90]and dreams were all they gave for free

[03:29.11]

[03:30.47]to ugly duckling girls like me

[03:33.97]

[03:36.57]we all played the game and when we dared

[03:40.68]

[03:41.05]to cheat ourselves at solitaire

[03:45.08]inverting lovers on the phone

[03:49.83]repenting other lives unknown

[03:53.26]they call and say "come dance with me"

[03:57.43]

[03:58.69]and murmur vague obscenities

[04:02.25]

[04:03.31]at ugly girls like me--at seventeen

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