"Edge Of Seventeen" lyrics

Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she's singing
Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she's singing

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
My eyes on him all alone
On the edge of seventeen

Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she's singing
Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she's singing

And 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, baby, nothing else mattered

Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she's singing
Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she's singing

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 an age
I went forth with an age old
Desire to please
On the edge of seventeen