[00:08.93]I learned the truth at seventeen
[00:12.97]That love was meant for beauty queens
[00:17.23]And high school girls with clear skinned smiles
[00:22.09]Who married young and then retired
[00:28.65]The valentines I never knew
[00:32.90]The Friday night charades of youth
[00:37.39]Were spent on one more beautiful
[00:41.64]At seventeen I learned the truth
[00:43.06]
[00:48.45]And those of us with ravaged faces
[00:53.36]Lacking in the social graces
[00:56.90]Desperately remained at home
[01:00.43]Inventing lovers on the phone
[01:04.28]Who called to say, "come dance with me"
[01:09.04]And murmur vague obscenities
[01:13.10]It isn't all it seems at seventeen
[01:17.10]
[01:19.83]A brown eyed girl in hand-me-downs
[01:24.46]Whose name I never could pronounce said
[01:28.30]Pity, please, the ones who serve
[01:32.44]They only get what they deserve
[01:38.98]The rich-relationed home-town queen
[01:43.43]Marries into what she needs
[01:46.86]With a guarantee of company and haven for the elderly
[01:53.88]
[01:58.12]Remember those who win the game
[02:02.65]Lose the love they sought to gain
[02:06.35]In debentures of quality
[02:10.29]And dubious integrity
[02:13.81]Their small town eyes will gape at you in
[02:17.64]Dull surprise when payment due
[02:22.48]Exceeds accounts received at seventeen
[02:26.67]
[03:22.10]To those of us who knew the pain
[03:26.06]Of valentines that never came
[03:30.62]And those whose names were never called
[03:34.66]When choosing sides for basketball
[03:41.39]It was long ago and far away
[03:45.92]The world was younger than today
[03:50.05]And dreams were all they gave for free
[03:54.22]To ugly duckling girls like me
[03:58.10]
[04:00.03]We all play the game and when we dare
[04:04.62]To cheat ourselves at solitaire
[04:08.57]Inventing lovers on the phone
[04:11.97]Repenting other lives unknown
[04:15.92]That call and say, "come dance with me"
[04:20.58]And murmur vague obscenities
[04:24.81]At ugly girls like me, at seventeen