Just like the white-winged dove sings a song
Sounds like she's singin'
Ooh, ooh, ooh
Just like the white-winged dove sings a song
Sounds like she's singin'
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
Nothin' else mattered
He was no more
Than a baby then
Well, he seemed broken-hearted
Somethin' 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
Said, ooh
Just like the white-winged dove sings a song
Sounds like she's singin'
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
When I see you doin'
What I try to do for me
With the words of a poet
And a voice from a choir
And a melody
Nothin' else mattered
Just like the white-winged dove
Said, ooh
Just like the white-winged dove sings a song
Sounds like she's singin'
Said, ooh, baby, ooh, said, ooh
The clouds never expect it when it rains
But the sea changes color
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, ooh, ooh, ah
Just like the white winged dove sings a song
Sounds like she's singin'
Ooh, baby, ooh, said, ooh
Just like the white winged dove sings a song
Sounds like she's singin'
Ooh, baby, ooh, said, ooh
Well, then suddenly
There was no one left standin' in the hall
Yeah, yeah
In a flood of tears
That no one really ever heard fall at all
When 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 singin', come away
Just like the white-winged dove
Sings the song
Sounds like she's singin'
Ooh, baby, ooh, said, ooh
Well, I hear you
In the morning
And I hear you
At nightfall
And 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
Said, ooh
White-winged dove sings a song
Sounds like she's singin'
Ooh, baby, ooh, said, ooh
Just like the white-winged dove sings a song
Sounds like she's singin'
