🎵 Luyện Nghe Bài Hát: At Seventeen - Janis Ian

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