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 I learned  truth at seventeen
 That love was meant  beauty queens
 In high school girls with clear  smiles
 Who married young  then retired
 The valentines I never 
 The Friday night charades  youth
 Were spent on one  beautiful
  seventeen I learned the truth
 And  of us with ravaged faces
 Lacking  the social graces
  remained at home
 Inventing lovers on the 
 Who called to say come dance with 
 And murmured vague 
 It isn't  it seems
 At seventeen
 
 A  eyed girl in hand me downs
 Whose name I  could pronounce
 Said, Pity please the ones who 
  only get what they deserve
 And the rich relationed hometown 
  into what she needs
  guarantee of company
 And  for the elderly
 Remember those who win the 
 Lose the love  sought to gain
 Indebentures of quality
 And dubious integrity
 Their small town eyes will  at you
 in dull surprise when  due
 Exceeds accounts received
 At seventeen
 
 To those  us who knew the pain
 Of  that never came
  those whose names were never called
 When choosing sides  basketball
 It was  ago and far away
 The world was younger than 
 And  were all they gave for free
 To ugly duckling girls like 
 We all play  game and when we dare
 To cheat  at solitaire
 Inventing lovers on the 
  other lives unknown
 That call and say, come dance with 
 And murmur vague 
 At ugly girls like 
 At seventeen