At Seventeen chords by Regine Velasquez
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I learned
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the truth at seventeen
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That love was meant for
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beauty queens
And high school girls with
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Clear skinned smiles
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Who married young and then re
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tired
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The valentines I never knew
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The Friday night charades of youth
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Were spent on those more beautiful
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At seventeen I learned
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the truth
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And those of us with ravaged
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faces
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Lacking in the social graces
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Des per ately remained at home
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Inventing lovers on the phone
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Who called to say "Come,
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dance with me"
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And murmured vague obscenities
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It isn't all it seems at
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sev enteen
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A brown- eyed girl in hand
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me downs
Whose name I never could pronounce
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Said "Pity please the
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ones who serve
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They only get what they de serve"
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The rich relationed hometown queen
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Marries into what she needs
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A guaran tee of company
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And haven for the elderly
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member those who win the game
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And lose the love they sought to gain
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In debentures of quality
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And dubious integrity
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Their small town eyes will gape at you
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In dull surprise when
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payments due
Exceed accounts received
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at seventeen
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Adlib to those of us who knew the pain
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Of valentines that never came
And those whose names
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were never called
When choosing sides
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for basketball
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It was long ago and far away
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The world was younger than today
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And dreams were all
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they gave for free
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To ugly duckling girls like me
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We all play the game
and when we dare
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To cheat ourselves at solitaire
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Inventing lovers on the phone
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Repeating other lives
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unknown
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Who call to say "Come
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dance with me"
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And murmur vague obscenities
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At ugly girls like me, at seventeen
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Outro 1
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At Seventeen
Regine Velasquez
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