🎵 Luyện Nghe Bài Hát: At Seventeen - Janis Ian

 I learned the  at seventeen
  love was meant for beauty queens
 In high school girls  clear skinned smiles
 Who married young and  retired
 The valentines I  knew
 The Friday night charades of 
 Were spent on one  beautiful
 At seventeen I  the truth
  those of us with ravaged faces
 Lacking in the social 
 Desperately  at home
 Inventing lovers on the 
 Who called to  come dance with me
  murmured vague obscenities
  isn't all it seems
 At seventeen
 
 A brown eyed girl in hand me 
 Whose name I never  pronounce
 Said, Pity please the ones  serve
 They only get what  deserve
 And the  relationed hometown queen
 Married into  she needs
 A guarantee  company
 And haven for  elderly
 Remember those  win the game
 Lose  love they sought to gain
 Indebentures of 
 And  integrity
 Their small town eyes  gape at you
 in  surprise when payment due
 Exceeds accounts 
 At seventeen
 
  those of us who knew the pain
  valentines that never came
 And those whose names were never 
 When choosing sides for 
  was long ago and far away
 The world was younger  today
 And dreams were all they  for free
 To ugly duckling girls like 
 We all play the game  when we dare
 To cheat ourselves at 
 Inventing lovers  the phone
 Repenting other  unknown
 That  and say, come dance with me
  murmur vague obscenities
 At  girls like me
 At seventeen