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 stopped)
 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
 I said ooh, baby, ooh, said ooh
 Just like the white winged dove
 Sings a song, sounds like she's singing
 I 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
 Well, 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, and nothing else mattered
 Just like the white winged dove
 Sings a song, sounds like she's singing
 I said ooh, baby, ooh, said ooh
 Just like the white winged dove
 Sings a song, sounds like she's singing
 I said ooh, baby, ooh, said ooh
 The clouds never expect it when it rains
 But the sea changes colours
 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
 I said ooh, baby, ooh, said ooh
 Just like the white winged dove
 Sings a song, sounds like she's singing
 I said 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
 Well, I went searchin' for an answer
 Up the stairs and down the hall
 And 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
 I said 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 feel 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