[00:16.570]i learned the truth at seventeen
[00:20.260]that love was meant for beauty queens
[00:24.500]and high school girls with clear siknned smiles
[00:28.350]who married young and then retired
[00:36.300]the valentines i never knew
[00:39.810]the friday night charades of youth
[00:44.000]were spent on one more beautiful
[00:49.390]at seventeen i learned the truth
[00:55.880]and those of us with ravaged faces
[00:59.670]lacking in the social graces
[01:04.260]desperately remained at home
[01:07.450]inventing lovers on the phone
[01:11.450]who called to say come dance with me
[01:16.539]and murmured vague obscenities
[01:20.520]it isn't all it seems at seventeen
[01:27.310]a brown-eyed girl in hand me downs
[01:31.200]whose name i never could pronounce
[01:35.490]said pity please the ones who serve
[01:39.580]they only get what they deserve
[01:46.270]and the rich relationed home town queen
[01:50.850]marries into what she needs
[01:54.740]with a guarantee of company and haven for the elderly
[02:06.420]remember those who with the game
[02:10.910]lose the love they sought to gain
[02:14.310]in debentures of quality and dubious integrity
[02:22.180]the small town eyes would gape at you in dull surprise
[02:27.970]when payment due exceeds accounts received at seventeen
[03:21.350]to those of us who knew the pain
[03:25.400]of valentines that never came
[03:29.230]and those whose names were never called
[03:33.620]when choosing sides for basketball
[03:39.910]it was long ago and far away
[03:44.690]the world was younger than today
[03:49.579]and dreams were all they gave for free
[03:54.270]to ugly duckling girls like me
[03:59.970]we all played the game and when we dared
[04:04.850]to cheat ourselves at solitaire
[04:08.650]inverting lovers on the phone
[04:12.340]repenting other lives unknown
[04:16.420]they call and say come dance with me
[04:20.810]and murmur vague obscenities
[04:24.700]at ugly girls like me-at seventeen