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

I learned the truth at seventeen
That love was meant for beauty queens
In high school girls with 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
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
Who called to say come dance with me
And murmured vague obscenities
It isn't all it
At seventeen

A brown eyed girl in hand me downs
Whose name I never could pronounce
Said, Pity please the ones who serve
They get what they deserve
And the rich relationed hometown queen
Married into what she needs
A guarantee of company
haven for the elderly
Remember those who win the game
Lose the love they sought to gain
Indebentures of quality
And dubious integrity
Their small town 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 never called
When choosing sides for basketball
It was long ago and far away
The world was 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
To cheat ourselves at solitaire
Inventing lovers on the phone
Repenting other lives unknown
call and say, come dance with me
And murmur vague obscenities
At ugly girls like me
At seventeen