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[00:08.57]That summer she let me hold her hand
[00:14.16]And took my boyhood by surprise
[00:19.64]Yet still I fail to understand
[00:25.11]The hidden longing in her eyes
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[00:30.53]Not a soul might well have seen
[00:33.39]What hands and eyes can sometimes mean
[00:38.47]But I was blind and seventeen
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[00:45.16]That summer I bolted from the truth
[00:49.81]Just as my sleeping heart began
[00:55.51]To sense the sunrise of my youth
[01:00.76]But I was still more boy than man
[01:06.99]Lust in the language lies between
[01:10.48]The life to come and seventeen
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[01:15.56]At seventeen you know it all
[01:20.83]You're riding high and talking tall
[01:25.51]You're no one's fool and no one's child
[01:29.60]The world and you were running wild
[01:32.45]The charm you've drawn from films and books
[01:35.19]A strong-nosed face, approving looks
[01:39.71]You lived the script, you looked the part
[01:45.17]Yet you're a stranger to the heart
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[01:57.77]That summer she woke me with a kiss
[02:03.44]And yet the prey refused the bait
[02:07.69]The silence beckoned me to bliss
[02:13.60]But to my shame, I saw too late
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[02:20.26]It wasn't red she meant, but green
[02:23.07]And now I see what might have been
[02:28.50]When I was blind and seventeen
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[02:35.30]That summer a part of me was burned
[02:39.73]These days my act is well-rehearsed
[02:45.19]But though I've lived, and loved, and learned
[02:50.94]Each new affair is like the first
[02:57.76]And I relive that summer scene
[03:03.20]When I was blind and seventeen
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