C5 D5 I learned the truth at seventeen That love was meant for beauty queens G5 C5 and high school girls with clear skinned smiles who married young and then retired C5 D5 The valentines I never knew, the friday nights, charades of youth G5 C5 were spent on one more beautiful At seventeen I learned the truth Eb5 D5 G5 And those of us with ravaged faces, lacking in the social graces C5 F5 C5 F5 Desp'ratly remained at home inventing lovers on the phone Ab5 G5 C5 F5 Who called and say "come dance with me" and murmured vague obscenities D5 G5 It isn't all it seems at seventeen C5 D5 A brown eyed girl in hand-me-downs, whose name I never could pronounce said G5 C5 Pity, please, the ones who serve, they only get what they deserve. C5 D5 The rich relationed home-town queen marries into what she needs G5 C5 A guarantee of company and haven for the elderly" Eb5 D5 G5 Remember those who win the game, lose the love they sought to gain C5 F5 C5 F5 In debentures of quality and dubious in tegrity Ab5 G5 C5 C5 Their small town eyes will gape at you in dull surprise when payment due D5 G5 exceeds accounts received at seventeen C5 D5 To those of us who know the pain of valentines that never came, G5 C5 and those whose name were never called when choosing side at basketball C5 D5 It was long ago and far away The world was younger than today G5 C5 and dreams were all they gave for free to ugly duckling girls like me Eb5 D5 G5 We all play the game and when we dare to cheat ourselves at solitaire C5 F5 C5 F5 Inventing lovers on the phone, repenting other lives unknown Ab5 G5 C5 F5 that call and say "Come dance with me", and murmur vague obscenities D5 G5 C5 C5 at ugly girls like me, at seventeen
