🎵 Luyện Nghe Bài Hát: At Seventeen - Janis Ian

 I learned the truth  seventeen
 That love was meant  beauty queens
 In high school girls with clear  smiles
 Who married young and  retired
  valentines I never knew
  Friday night charades of youth
  spent on one more beautiful
 At seventeen I learned the 
 And those of us with  faces
  in the social graces
  remained at home
 Inventing  on the phone
 Who called  say come dance with me
 And murmured vague 
  isn't all it seems
 At seventeen
 
 A brown  girl in hand me downs
 Whose name I  could pronounce
 Said, Pity please  ones who serve
  only get what they deserve
 And the rich relationed  queen
 Married into what  needs
 A guarantee  company
  haven for the elderly
 Remember  who win the game
 Lose the  they sought to gain
  of quality
  dubious integrity
 Their  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 never 
 And  whose names were never called
 When choosing sides  basketball
 It was long ago  far away
  world was younger than today
 And dreams were all they gave for 
 To ugly duckling girls like 
 We all play  game and when we dare
  cheat ourselves at solitaire
 Inventing lovers on the 
 Repenting  lives unknown
 That  and say, come dance with me
  murmur vague obscenities
 At ugly girls  me
 At seventeen