[id:$00000000] [ti:At Seventeen] [ar:Janis Ian] [al:Between the Lines] [by:] [00:00.00]At Seventeen (Remaster) - Janis Ian [00:04.01]Written by：Janis Ian [00:08.02]I learned the truth at seventeen [00:12.18]That love was meant for the beauty queens [00:16.73]And high school girls with clear skinned smiles [00:21.09]Who married young and then retired [00:27.71]The valentines I never knew [00:31.86]The Friday night charades of youth [00:36.51]We're spent on one more beautiful [00:40.61]At seventeen I learned the truth [00:47.44]And those of us with ravaged faces [00:52.32]Lacking in the social graces [00:55.53]Desperately remained at home [00:59.14]Inventing lovers on the phone [01:02.99]Who called to say come dance with me [01:07.89]And murmured vague obscenities [01:11.96]It isn't all it seems at seventeen [01:18.67]A brown eyed girl in hand me downs [01:23.17]Whose name I never could pronounce [01:27.14]Said pity please the ones who serve [01:31.13]They only get what they deserve [01:37.53]And the rich relationed hometown queen [01:42.03]Marries into what she needs [01:45.22]With a guarantee of company [01:49.20]And haven for the elderly [01:56.87]Remember those who win the game [02:01.07]They lose the love they sought to gain [02:04.63]In debentures of quality and dubious integrity [02:12.36]Their small town eyes will gape at you [02:16.05]In dull surprise when payment due [02:21.08]Exceeds accounts received at seventeen [03:20.29]To those of us who knew the pain [03:24.35]Of valentines that never came [03:28.54]And those whose names were never called [03:32.95]When choosing sides for basketball [03:39.28]It was long ago and far away [03:44.14]The world was younger than today [03:48.30]When dreams were all they gave for free [03:51.94]To ugly duckling girls like me [03:58.18]We all play the game and when we dare [04:02.73]To cheat ourselves at solitaire [04:06.60]Inventing lovers on the phone [04:10.11]Repenting other lives unknown [04:13.89]They call and say come dance with me [04:18.71]And murmur vague obscenities [04:22.62]At ugly girls like me at seventeen