Edge of Seventeen

Just like the white winged dove

Sings a song

Sounds like she's singin'

Whoo whoo whoo

Just like the white winged dove

Sings a song

Sounds like she's singin'

Whoo, baby, whoo

Said, whoo

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

Sings a song

Sounds like she's singin'

Whoo, baby, whoo, whoo

Just like the white winged dove

Sings a song

Sounds like she's singin'

Said, whoo, baby, whoo

Said, whoo

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 their words of a poet

And a voice from a choir

And a melody

Nothin' else mattered

Just like the white winged dove

Sings a song

Sounds like she's singin'

Whoo, baby, whoo, said whoo

Just like the white winged dove

Sings a song

Sounds like she's singin'

Whoo, baby, whoo

Said, whoo

The clouds never e pect it

When it rains

But the sea changes colours

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

Just like the white winged dove

Sings a song

Sounds like she's singin'

Whoo, baby, whoo, said whoo

Just like the white winged dove

Sings a song

Sounds like she's singin'

Whoo, baby, whoo

Said, whoo

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

When I went searchin' for an answer

Up the stairs and down the hall

Not to find an answer

Just to hear the call

Of a nightbird singin'

(Come away)

(Come away)

Just like the white winged dove

Sings a song

Sounds like she's singin'

Whoo, baby, whoo, said whoo

Just like the white winged dove

Sings a song

Sounds like she's singin'

Whoo, baby, whoo

Said, whoo

Well, I hear you

In the morning

And I hear you

At nightfall

Sometime to be near you

Is to be unable to hear you

My love

I'm a few years older than you

Just like the white winged dove

Sings a song

Sounds like she's singin'

Whoo, baby, whoo

Said, whoo