[00:00.000] 作词 : JANIS IAN
[00:01.000] 作曲 : JANIS IAN
[00:15.629]I learned the truth at seventeen
[00:19.402]That love was meant for beauty queens
[00:23.669]And high school girls with clear-skinned smiles
[00:28.188]Who married young and then retired
[00:34.459]The valentines I never knew
[00:38.222]The Friday night charades of youth
[00:42.739]Were spent on one more beautiful
[00:46.502]At seventeen I learned the truth
[00:53.277]And those of us with ravaged faces
[00:57.794]Lacking in the social graces
[01:01.054]Desperately remained at home
[01:04.152]Inventing lovers on the phone
[01:08.170]Who called to say, "Come dance with me"
[01:12.460]And murmured vague obscenities
[01:16.810]It isn't all it seems
[01:19.571]At seventeen
[01:23.339]A brown-eyed girl in hand-me-downs
[01:26.859]Whose name I never could pronounce
[01:31.681]Said, "Pity, please, the ones who serve
[01:35.446]They only get what they deserve"
[01:41.970]And the rich-relationed hometown queen
[01:45.736]Marries into what she needs
[01:49.509]With a guarantee of company
[01:53.022]And haven for the elderly
[02:00.557]Remember those who win the game
[02:04.834]Lose the love they sought to gain
[02:08.348]In debentures of quality
[02:12.165]And dubious integrity
[02:15.930]Their small town eyes will gape at you
[02:19.691]In dull surprise when payment due
[02:24.206]Exceeds accounts received
[02:27.269]At seventeen
[03:34.461]To those of us who knew the pain
[03:38.273]Of valentines that never came
[03:42.789]And those whose names were never called
[03:46.552]When choosing sides for basketball
[03:53.077]It was long ago and far away
[03:58.096]The world was younger than today
[04:01.609]When dreams were all they gave for free
[04:05.374]To ugly duckling girls like me
[04:11.472]We all play the game and when we dare
[04:15.999]To cheat ourselves at solitaire
[04:19.765]Inventing lovers on the phone
[04:23.277]Repenting other lives unknown
[04:27.057]They call and say, "Come dance with me"
[04:31.336]And murmur vague obscenities
[04:35.626]At ugly girls like me
[04:38.386]At seventeen