🎵 Luyện Nghe Bài Hát: At Seventeen - Janis Ian

 I learned the truth  seventeen
 That love was  for beauty queens
 In  school girls with clear skinned smiles
 Who married young and  retired
  valentines I never knew
  Friday night charades of youth
 Were  on one more beautiful
  seventeen I learned the truth
 And those  us with ravaged faces
 Lacking in  social graces
  remained at home
  lovers on the phone
 Who called to say come dance with 
 And murmured  obscenities
 It  all it seems
 At seventeen
 
 A brown  girl in hand me downs
 Whose name  never could pronounce
 Said, Pity please the  who serve
  only get what they deserve
 And  rich relationed hometown queen
 Married  what she needs
 A guarantee of 
 And haven for  elderly
 Remember  who win the game
 Lose the love  sought to gain
 Indebentures of 
 And  integrity
  small town eyes will gape at you
 in dull surprise when  due
  accounts received
 At seventeen
 
 To those of us  knew the pain
 Of valentines that  came
 And those whose names  never called
 When choosing  for basketball
 It was long ago and  away
 The  was younger than today
 And dreams  all they gave for free
 To ugly duckling girls like 
 We all play the game and  we dare
 To cheat ourselves  solitaire
 Inventing lovers on the 
 Repenting other lives 
  call and say, come dance with me
 And murmur  obscenities
  ugly girls like me
 At seventeen