EDGE OF SEVENTEEN

Just like the white winged dove Sings a song, sounds like she's singing Ooo, ooo, ooo Just like the white winged dove Sings a song, sounds like she's singing Ooo, baby, ooo Said Ooo 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 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 Ooo, baby, ooo Said Ooo Just like the white winged dove Sings a song, sounds like she's singing I said Ooo, baby, ooo Said Ooo Well, I went today Maybe I will go again tomorrow Yea yea, 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, nothing else mattered Just like the white winged dove Sings a song, sounds like she's singing I said Ooo, baby, ooo Said Ooo Just like the white winged dove Sings a song, sounds like she's singing I said Ooo, baby, ooo Said Ooo The clouds, never expect it When it rains But the sea changes color But the sea does not change And so with the slow graceful Flow of age, I went forth with an Age old desire to please On the edge of seventeen, ooa Ooa Just like the white winged dove Sings a song, sounds like she's singing I said Ooo, baby, ooo Said Ooo Just like the white winged dove Sings a song, sounds like she's singing I said Ooo, baby, ooo Said Ooo 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 Just like the white winged dove Sings a song, sounds like she's singing Ooo, baby, ooo Said Ooo Just like the white winged dove Sings a song, sounds like she's singing I said Ooo, baby, ooo Said Ooo Well, I hear you in the morning and I hear you at nightfall, sometimes to be near you Is to be unable to hear you, my love I'm a few years older than you, my love Just like the white winged dove Sings a song, sounds like she's singing Ooo, baby, ooo Said Ooo Just like the white winged dove Sings a song, sounds like she's singing Ooo, baby, ooo Said Ooo