Edge Of Seventeen

(album: Bella Donna - 1981)

Just like the white-winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she's singing
Whoo-whoo-whoo
Just like the white-winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she's singing
Whoo, baby, whoo
Said, whoo

And the days go by
Like a strand in the wind
In the web that is my own
I begin again
Said to my friend, baby
Nothing else mattered

He was no more
(He was no more)
Than a baby then
Well, he seemed broken-hearted
Something within him
But the moment
That I first laid
Eyes on him
All alone on the edge of seventeen

Just like the white-winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she's singing
Whoo, baby, whoo, whoo
Just like the white-winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she's singing
Said, whoo, baby, whoo
Said, whoo

Well, I went today
Maybe I will go again
Tomorrow, yeah, yeah
Well, the music there
Well it was hauntingly familiar
When I see you doing
What I try to do for me
With their words of a poet
And a voice from a choir
And a melody
Nothing else mattered

Just like the white-winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she's singing
Whoo, baby, whoo, said whoo
Just like the white-winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she's singing
Said, whoo, baby, whoo
Said, whoo

The clouds never expect it
When it rains
But the sea changes colours
But the sea
Does not change
So with the slow graceful flow
Of age
I went forth with an age old
Desire to please
On the edge of seventeen

Just like the white-winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she's singing
Whoo, baby, whoo, said whoo
Just like the white-winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she's singing
Whoo, baby, whoo
Said, whoo

Well then suddenly
There was no one left standing
In the hall, yeah, yeah
In a flood of tears
That no one really ever heard fall at all
When I went searching for an answer
Up the stairs and down the hall
Not to find an answer
Just to hear the call
Of a nightbird singing
Come away
(Come away)
(Come away)

Just like the white-winged dove
(Just like the white-winged dove)
Sings a song
Sounds like she's singing
Whoo, baby, whoo, said whoo
Just like the white-winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she's singing
Whoo, baby, whoo
Said, whoo

Well, I hear you (well, I hear you)
In the morning (in the morning)
And I hear you (and I hear you)
At nightfall (at nightfall)
Sometime to be near you
Is to be unable to hear you
My love
I'm a few years older than you
(I'm a few years older than you)
My love

Just like the white-winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she's singing
Whoo, baby, whoo
Said, whoo