Seventeen

We were a twenty-two dollar bottle of wine on a letterman coat
 Sneaking out late every Sunday night with nowhere to go
 And I thought I knew everything there was to know
 But she showed me how wrong I could be our first night alone
 And we were seventeen
 We were digging down deep
 And howling at the moon
 Caught somewhere between
 A little too late and way too soon
 And we were seventeen
 We were a four dollar pack of Marlboro Reds
 And a hand-me-down Ford
 Spent every last dime we had
 Seeing what four on the floor would do
 Everything we found just left us looking for more
 They said, "Don't worry, son
 No one knows what it is they're looking for
 When you're seventeen"
 We were digging down deep
 And howling at the moon
 Caught somewhere between
 A little too late and way too soon
 We were wanting something more
 But clinging to our roots
 You were an angel in a sun dress
 I was a devil in boots
 Oh, we were seventeen
 I got that letter in the mail on the 1st of March
 Taking me halfway across the country
 Man, it nearly tore my heart in two
 Wondering if what we thought we had could make it that far
 Made me see
 I thought that life wasn't supposed to be this hard
 When you're seventeen
 Oh, we were seventeen
 Hey
 Oh, you're seventeen