Album Name

Loved Me Back To Life (Deluxe Ver.)

Artist

Celine Dion

Genre

POP

Release Date

2013.11.01

Release Agency

Sony Music

At Seventeen - Celine Dion
I learned the truth at seventeen
That love was meant
for beauty queens
And high school girls
with clear skinned 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
The rich relationed
hometown queen
Marries into what she needs
With a guarantee of company
And haven for the elderly
Remember those
who win the game
Lose the love they sought to gain
In debentures of quality
and dubious integrity
Their small town eyes
will 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 play the game
and when we dare
We cheat ourselves at solitaire
Inventing lovers on the phone
Repenting other lives unknown
That call and say
Come dance with me
And murmur vague obscenities
At ugly girls like me
at seventeen