歌手:Rachael Yamagata
专辑:《Covers》

i learned the truth at seventeen

that love was meant for beauty queens

and high school girls with clear siknned smiles
who married young and then retired

the valentines i never knew
the friday night charades of youth
were spent on one more beautiful
at seventeen i learned the truth

and those of us with ravaged faces

lacking in the social graces
desperately remained at home
inventing lovers on the phone
who called to say come dance with me"
and murmured vague obscenities

it isn't all it seems at seventeen

a brown-eyed girl in hand me downs

whose name i never could pronounce
said"pity please the ones who serve,
they only get what they deserve"

and the rich relationed home town queen

marries into what she needs
with a guarantee of company and haven for the elderly

remember those who with the game
lose the love they sought to gain
in debentures of quality and dubious integrity
the small town eyes would gape at you in dull surprise

when payment due exceeds accounts received at seventeen

to those of us who knew the pain
of valentines that never came
and those whose names were never called
when choosing sides for basketball

it was long ago and far away

the world was younger than today

and dreams were all they gave for free

to ugly duckling girls like me

we all played the game and when we dared

to cheat ourselves at solitaire
inverting lovers on the phone
repenting other lives unknown
they call and say "come dance with me"

and murmur vague obscenities

at ugly girls like me--at seventeen