Học Tiếng Anh Qua Bài Hát Có Phụ Đề: At Seventeen

I learned the truth at seventeen
That love meant for beauty queens
In high school girls with clear skinned smiles
Who married young and then retired
The valentines I never knew
The Friday night charades 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
murmured vague obscenities
It isn't all it seems
At seventeen

A brown eyed girl hand me downs
Whose name I never could pronounce
Said, Pity the ones who serve
They only get what they deserve
And the rich relationed hometown queen
Married into what she needs
A guarantee of company
And haven for the elderly
Remember those who win the game
Lose love they sought to gain
Indebentures of quality
And dubious integrity
Their small 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 for basketball
It was long ago and far away
The world was younger than today
And dreams were all they for free
To ugly duckling girls like me
We all play the game and when we dare
To cheat ourselves at solitaire
Inventing lovers on the phone
Repenting other lives unknown
That call and say, dance with me
And murmur vague obscenities
At ugly girls like me
At seventeen