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[00:17.141]I learned the truth at seventeen
[00:21.504]That love was meant for beauty queens
[00:26.098]And high school girls with clear skinned smiles
[00:30.135]Who married young and then retired
[00:37.605]The valentines I never knew
[00:41.813]The Friday night charades of youth
[00:46.096]Were spent on one more beautiful
[00:50.302]At seventeen I learned the truth
[00:57.402]And those of us with ravaged faces
[01:02.523]Lacking in the social graces
[01:06.637]Desperately remained at home
[01:10.655]Inventing lovers on the phone
[01:13.889]Who called to say come dance with me
[01:18.822]And murmured vague obscenities
[01:22.766]It isn't all it seems at seventeen
[01:30.792]A brown eyed girl in hand me downs
[01:34.686]Whose name I never could pronounce
[01:38.912]Said pity please the ones who serve
[01:43.034]They only get what they deserve
[01:49.742]The rich relationed hometown queen
[01:55.021]Marries into what she needs
[01:59.135]With a guarantee of company
[02:03.482]And haven for the elderly
[02:10.602]So remember those who win the game
[02:15.264]Lose the love they sought to gain
[02:19.826]In debentures of quality and dubious integrity
[02:26.817]Their small town eyes will gape at you
[02:31.063]In dull surprise when payment due
[02:36.012]Exceeds accounts received at seventeen
[03:15.327]Their small town eyes will gape at you
[03:19.864]In dull surprise when payment due
[03:24.768]Exceeds accounts received at seventeen
[03:32.032]To those of us who knew the pain
[03:36.654]Of valentines that never came
[03:41.453]And those whose names were never called
[03:45.077]When choosing sides for basketball
[03:51.962]It was long ago and far away
[03:57.248]The world was younger than today
[04:01.257]And dreams were all they gave for free
[04:05.557]To ugly duckling girls like me
[04:12.870]We all play the game and when we dare
[04:17.017]We cheat ourselves at solitaire
[04:21.857]Inventing lovers on the phone
[04:25.978]Repenting other lives unknown
[04:28.910]That call and say come dance with me
[04:34.191]And murmur vague obscenities
[04:38.160]At ugly girls like me at seventeen