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i learned the truth at seventeen |
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that love was meant for beauty queens |
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and high school girls with clear siknned smiles |
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who married young and then retired |
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the valentines i never knew |
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the friday night charades of youth |
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were spent on one more beautiful |
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at seventeen i learned the truth |
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and those of us with ravaged faces |
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lacking in the social graces |
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desperately remained at home |
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inventing lovers on the phone |
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who called to say come dance with me |
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and murmured vague obscenities |
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it isn't all it seems at seventeen |
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a brown-eyed girl in hand me downs |
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whose name i never could pronounce |
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said pity please the ones who serve |
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they only get what they deserve |
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and the rich relationed home town queen |
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marries into what she needs |
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with a guarantee of company and haven for the elderly |
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remember those who with the game |
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lose the love they sought to gain |
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in debentures of quality and dubious integrity |
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the small town eyes would gape at you in dull surprise |
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when payment due exceeds accounts received at seventeen |
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to those of us who knew the pain |
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of valentines that never came |
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and those whose names were never called |
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when choosing sides for basketball |
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it was long ago and far away |
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the world was younger than today |
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and dreams were all they gave for free |
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to ugly duckling girls like me |
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we all played the game and when we dared |
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to cheat ourselves at solitaire |
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inverting lovers on the phone |
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repenting other lives unknown |
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they call and say come dance with me |
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and murmur vague obscenities |
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at ugly girls like me-at seventeen |
