• J Church
• Nicole
• Pizzicato Five
• Tim McGraw
• Virgin Steele
• Jimmy Eat World
• Kingdom Come
• Foreigner
• Kings Of Leon
• Musiq Soulchild
• Machinae Supremacy
• Sex Pistols
• Ladytron
• Pete Yorn
• Keren Ann
• Nerina Pallot
• Jet
• New York Dolls
• Sponge
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• Admiral Twin
• Winger
• Marina & The Diamonds
• Musiq
• Love Spit Love
• Simon Webbe
• Alexa Vega
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• Azealia Banks
• Bambee
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• Nicole Wray
• Ice Nine Kills
• Music of the Heart Soundtrack
• Repo! The Genetic Opera
• Let Loose
• Robin Black

Come and talk to me,
You know the call is free,
To me it feels like such a long, long time,
I saw the magazine,
You looked seventeen,
It makes me feel like thinking about you is a crime
The world that you live in is a million miles away,
Why not do tomorrow what you can do today,
There's coffee in the kitchen and bags for making tea,
Tea and toast for breakfast is good enough for me
When you think of me,
What do you see?
Maybe I'm just some distant memory,
I'm on the outside,
Beyond the bright lights,
I will think of you anonymously
The world that you live in is a million miles away,
Why not do tomorrow what you can do today,
There's coffee in the kitchen and bags for making tea,

You know
I don't know what's up with this cat
But I know
I know he's gonna be mine
Yes I'm the supa dupa, I'm a superstar
I got a super flow that goes super far
I need a super man that's got a super tan
That can deactivate my body like the super friends
Was the finest guy in school
He got the whole damn school locked
And I thought he was cute
So wanna see, I had to stop
Boy how are you?
And by the way, Nicole is my name
So I slipped him my number
Showed him how us began
Call me if you need someone to talk to
Call me even though I'm seventeen
Call me when you need someone to talk to
Call me, call me
He was only seventeen
And I was checkin' him everyday
And he's no beginner
He made me hot like filled with me
I gotta find a way
To keep all his attention to me
So I slipped him a paper told him
Hit me off at three, hey, call me
Call me if you need someone to talk to
Call me even though I'm seventeen
Call me when you need someone to talk to
Call me, call me
Yes I know I really want him
Yes I know I really need him
Yes I know I gotta have him
You can call me up in the evening
Yes I know I really want him
Yes I know I really need him
Yes I know I gotta have him
You can call me up in the evening
Call me if you need someone to talk to
Call me even though I'm seventeen
Call me when you need someone to talk to
Call me, call me
Sow up this sunshine, what's yours is mine
You won't succeed without tryin', never blind
See I'm the type of female to hold on
Like deodorant I roll on and gets my flow on
I'm livin' in reality, respect me
My image is not a pocket book and I won't get took
Girls get shook when they look, my style is John Blaze
So I'ma make it hot and leave somebody in a daze
Call me if you need someone to talk to
Call me even though I'm seventeen
Call me when you need someone to talk to
Call me, call me
One two, play this in your jeep
Make you move your feet
Make you move your neck
Bet that
Say what, freaky freaky rewind freaky rewind
Play this in your jeep, make you move your feet
Make you move your neck, bet that
Make you move your neck, bet that
Make you move your neck
Play this in your jeep, make you move your feet
Make you move your neck
Nigga what, nigga what ha
Nigga what, give me some
Give me some bass nigga
Turn me up, ah, call, call me
Call, call me
Misdemeanor one two
You know how I do, I make every beat
Make you move your feet

(Tajima)
Translators: Andrei Cunha
tsumetaku
kami no ke wo
yubi de tokashita
doko ka de
mita yo na
sonna o-mae no
sono kuse
omoidasenakatta
yaburisuteta
fotogurafu
soshite
seventeen
seventeen
o-mae no sugata
seventeen
seventeen
hizunda toki
doko ka
sukoshi
utsuro na
o-mae no
sono me wa
doko ka de
mita hazu sa
tashika
zuibun
mukashi ni
omoidasenakatta
ano toki no
o-mae ga
tsumari
seventeen
seventeen
o-mae no sugata
seventeen
seventeen
hizunda toki
ni-do to
aitakunakatta
tsumetai
kami no ke wo
yubi de
tokashinagara
tachisatta
seventeen
seventeen
o-mae no sugata
seventeen
seventeen
hizunda toki
seventeen
sweet seventeen...
-------------------------
when i saw you
straighten your hair
with your finger
it felt like
i knew that
gesture
from somewhere
but i couldn't remember where
i couldn't remember
the torn picture
and then
seventeen
seventeen
i remembered you
seventeen
seventeen
your warped image
it felt like
i knew
that vacant
stare
from
somewhere
i saw it somewhere
i'm sure
a long time
ago
but i couldn't remember
what you looked like
at that time
i mean
seventeen
seventeen
i remember you
seventeen
seventeen
your warped image
i didn't want
to meet you ever again
the way you
straightened your hair
with your finger
and the way
you left me
seventeen
seventeen
i remember you
seventeen
seventeen
your warped image
seventeen
sweet seventeen...

Backseat of her daddy's car
I was trying not to go too far
Kept thinking about the words the preacherman said
Lightnin' flashed across the sky
I saw love in a young girl's eyes
And that's a look you never forget
Seventeen only comes once in a lifetime
Don't it just fly by wild and free
Goin any way the wind blew, baby
Seventeen, livin on crazy dreams
Rock and roll and faded blue jeans
And standing on the edge of everything
Seventeen
Legs hangin' off the Bayou Bridge
Feedin' fish potato chips
And talkin' about the mysteries of the universe
Yeah, the world was somewhere else
We had the Summer all to ourselves
And the stars went off like fireworks
Seventeen only comes once in a lifetime
Don't it just fly by wild and free
Goin any way the wind blew, baby
Seventeen, livin on crazy dreams
Rock and roll and faded blue jeans
And standing on the edge of everything
Seventeen
Seventeen only comes once in a lifetime
Don't it just fly by wild and free
Goin any way the wind blew, baby
Seventeen, livin on crazy dreams
Rock and roll and faded blue jeans
And standing on the edge of everything

(Music: De Feis/Pursino, lyrics: De Feis)
Little Janey's got a crazy walk
Rock and roller, leather vixen talk
She moves so fine
Belladonna with an angel heart
Topless dancer, Paris pearls
She's hot!
Underneath the lights
I wanna feel your body burnin' all night long
I want to taste the magic hidden in your charms
Chorus:
Sweet seventeen- age of consent
Seventeen- age of consent
She's seventeen and tight, ah yeah (look out)Makin' love under the summer night
Bodies sweating into liquid life
Little girl sighs
Slidin' sweeter down her velvet thighs
Leopard movement, animal surprise
Sweet, sweet cries
Slide on, champagne siren, ah it's only sweeter babe..

Hung up here on a web of comfort.
Taking off with nowhere to go.
Standing tall with but your new cloak armor.
Making out like it's all been done.
It's harder than it seems.
You slip but never fall.
They'll take you, when you wont come back to me.
Tearing down what we built up so well.
Layin low as you came my way.
Look alive with your head on backwards, goin off when there's nothin wrong.
It's only in your dreams, but it felt like it was real.
They'll take you, when you won't come back to me.
Hang loose, my friend dont walk away from me,
because i really think you're cool.
Is it worth turning back despite these open hands?
You're tearing me apart.
They'll take you, when you won't come back to me.

I need your lovin' this I know
Seventeen, you drive me wild
You're just so lovely this I know
Oh, I want to make you mine
Slip into my hands
I want it , I want it, I want it
Ohh, say it, say it, say it
Don't you know I really care for you
I really do
Babe yes, I wanna be your sugar man
You want it this I know
Seventeen, there ain't no rules in heavens traffic

Late last night
I get a call from a so-called friend
He wouldn't give his name
Says he saw you with another man
Feels like seventeen years
It's only seventeen days
Since I saw the real you
And I let you walk away
You left me broken
You left me stranded
The way you play this game of love
It's just plain underhanded
I spent a lot of time
And I spent all my money
Don't want no other fool
To put his hands on you
Who you been talkin' to?
Yeah who you been walkin' with?
Seventeen, you're just seventeen
Seventeen
They said I was playin' with fire
I knew I had to take a chance
I had to take you higher
To a new experience
But little did I know
I'd never get that far
Girl, you know you put on quite a show
You're gonna be a star
When you grow older, girl
You'll remember I told you, girl
Seventeen, you're just seventeen
Seventeen, seventeen
Seventeen, you're just seventeen
Seventeen, seventeen
Seventeen, you're only seventeen

Oh she's only seventeen
Whine whine whine, weep over everything
Bloody mary breakfast busting up the street
Brothers fighting, when's the baby gonna sleep
Heaving ship too sails away
Said it's a culmination of a story and a goodbye session
It's a tick of our time and the tic in her head that made me feel so strange
So i could call you baby, i could call you, dammit, it's a one in a million
Oh it's the rolling of your spanish tongue that made me wanna stay
Oh she's only seventeen
Whine whine whine, weep over everything
Bloody mary breakfast breakfast busting up the street
Brothers fighting, when's the baby gonna sleep
Heaving ship too sails away
Said it's a culmination of a story and a goodbye session
It's a tick of our time and the tic in her head that made me feel so strange
Said i could call you baby, i could call you, dammit, it's a one in a million
Oh it's the rolling of her spanish tongue that made me wanna stay
I could call you baby, i could call you, dammit, it's a one in a million

Five foot seven with light green eyes
Body built like a woman over twenty-five
Plus she push the whip that the average women couldn't get
Less she worked about two nine to five's
Girly played the game just a little too mature
She damn near had everything I was looking for
But things seemed shady
When I asked my lady to meet at the club
She had trouble at the door
That's when I found out that
(Ohh)
She was only seventeen years old
And I couldn't see her no more
(Ohh)
I ain't tryin to see myself locked up
For knockin up some young joan
(Ohh)
How could I explain this situation to my family
And all of my boys
(Ohh)
I'm sorry shorty
But you've got to get gone
Yeah
I tried to cut her off
But she wasn't having it
She kept telling me her age didn't mean sh--
And that's when she started to cry
Baby I need you in my life
And without you I just couldn't handle it
So what's a brother to do
(Ohh)
Either way I lose
(So)
I could just say my piece
Or piss off her peeps
And talk it out with the boys in blue
Cause when it comes down to it
(Ohh)
She was just seventeen years old
And I was dead wrong from the door
(Ohh)
--Welcome to your voice messaging service.
To enter your mailbox, press *. (Beep) First message --
Yo, how you doin'? Call me when you get this.
(Beep) --Mess...-- (Beep)
Yo, what's goin' on? I called you earlier.
I guess you aint get my message.
But when you get this, hit me back, aiight? Bye.
-- (Beep) --Mess..-- (Beep)
Hey! What got some b*tch over there or sump'in?
Can't pick up your phone. I been calling you and
tryin' to speak to you and you still don't answer the phone.
-- (Beep) (Beep)
See, you trying to play somebody.
As though I won't have to bring my n*ggas over there,
to kick ya ass! Ya think somebody playin' with ya ass.
Ya don't...ya don't return my calls. This is it.

[spoken] these people are very smart,
yes sir.. a lot of them actually went to college
We come to help, we deliver a savior
this is your chance at salvation
we can not abide by the savage behavior
of those in command of your nation
We turn over the stone as we poke
and harvest the world in democracy's name
And even though our own is a joke
we need yours to be all the same
We are the ones who are setting you free
now you can share our beliefs and be just like we
We bring you out from under tyranny
and into our economy
when it's all too late you will discover
that wanting to help is a lie
this is what we do, we exploit under cover
swift like a thief in the night
And when you're free to consume and to use
we will service you with everything we produce
Take it or leave it but know this one truth
We market this freedom for you

You're only 29
Got a lot to learn
But when your mummy dies
She will not return
We like noise it's our choice
It's what we wanna do
We don't care about long hairs
I don't wear flares
See my face not a trace
No reality
I don't work I just speed
That's all I need
I'm a lazy sod, I'm lazy sod
I'm a lazy sod I'm so lazy
I'm a lazy sod I'm lazy sod
I'm a lazy sod I'm so lazy
I can't even be bothered

They only want you when you're seventeen
When you're twenty-one, you're no fun
They take a polaroid and let you go
Say they'll let you know, so come on
They only want you when you're seventeen
When you're twenty-one, you're no fun
They take a polaroid and let you go
Say they'll let you know, so come on
They only want you when you're seventeen
When you're twenty-one, you're no fun
They take a polaroid and let you go
Say they'll let you know, so come on
They only want you when you're seventeen
When you're twenty-one, you're no fun
They take a polaroid and let you go
Say they'll let you know, so come on
They only want you when you're seventeen
When you're twenty-one, you're no fun
They take a polaroid and let you go
Say they'll let you know, so come on
They only want you when you're seventeen
When you're twenty-one, you're no fun
They take a polaroid and let you go
Say they'll let you know, so come on
They only want you when you're seventeen
When you're twenty-one, you're no fun
They take a polaroid and let you go
Say they'll let you know, so come on
They only want you when you're seventeen
When you're twenty-one, you're no fun
They take a polaroid and let you go
Say they'll let you know, so come on
They only want you when you're seventeen
When you're twenty-one, you're no fun
They take a polaroid and let you go
Say they'll let you know, so come on
They only want you when you're seventeen
When you're twenty-one, you're no fun
They take a polaroid and let you go
Say they'll let you know, so come on
They take a polaroid and let you go
Say they'll let you know, so come on
They take a polaroid and let you go
Say they'll let you know, so come on
They take a polaroid and let you go
Say they'll let you know, so come on

(written by Pete Yorn)
Westwood girls in their skirts and their turtle necks
Starting their day with their coffee and cigarettes,
Says she's from Taipei now lives in Texas,
I love the way they stand on their own.
Their own their own
Washington DC, never forget this,
Blame nothing swear you're an architect,
Names, faces, outstanding places,
I love the way they stand on their own.
Their own
Come down and see they'll let you in
At 17 they let you in
I'm on a page-turner forward to never stop,
I couldn't miss if you wanted that,
Came back from home town now you can feel down,
I love the way they stand on their own
Their own their own
Come back and use me
Now you can never spend,
I told you save for another friend,
I was ok but you surely convinced me,
I love the way they stand on their own, their own
Come down and see they'll let you in,
Oh at 17 they let you in
Come now come clean they'll let you in,
Oh they let you in
They let you in
Oooh come now come clean, they'll let you in
At 17 they let you in
All the years between, they let you in
Oh they let you in
They let you in
Ohhhh ohh

Look at me, I'm only seventeen
The many years between us have been broken
Look at me under the evergreen
Life is a mellow dream almost unspoken
By the way, you said you're here to stay
Let me love you 'til tomorrow
Then it will last a year and a day
Maybe we're here to forget
Look at me, I'm only seventeen
It hasn't been too long but it's been lonely
Look at me and smell the tangerine
Life is a mellow song but only, only
By the time, you reach your lemon-lime
I will love you 'til tomorrow
Then it will last a year and a day
Maybe we're here to forget
Look at me, I'm only seventeen
It hasn't been too long but it's been lonely
Look at me, under the evergreen

Kissed by the sun of a languid summer
My heart hammers in my mouth
You were dancing with the devil in the morning after
I couldn't go without
Taste the salt on your skin, now the wanting begins
Just to know what it feels like at last
All those slow afternoons that I think of you
Now I smile when I think of the past
We were seventeen
We were high on the ever after, yeah
We were seventeen
Gonna get a get a little slice of heaven, heaven
Oh take me back to my first forgetting
It is the strangest place
The sand in our hair, you were sweet like whiskey
Oh it should always be like this
The leaf and the grain and the ...
And Minnie on the radio
No regrets and no shame, I'd go back again
But sometimes we should just let go
We were seventeen
We were high on the ever after, yeah
We were seventeen
Gonna get a little slice of heaven, yeah
Oh it goes around, oh it goes around, oh it goes
We're loving like it was the first time
Oh it goes around, oh it goes around, oh it goes
We're loving like it was the first time, no
Taste the salt on your skin, how the wanting begins
Just to know what it feels like at last
All those slow afternoons I spent thinking of you
Now I smile when I think of the past
We were seventeen
We were high on the ever after, yeah
We were seventeen
Gonna get a little slice of heaven, yeah
We were seventeen
We were high on the ever after, yeah
We were seventeen
Gonna get a little slice of heaven, yeah
Oh it goes around, oh it goes around, oh it goes
We're loving like it was the first time, no
Yeah it goes around, yeah it goes around, yeah it goes
We're loving like it was the first time
When you're seventeen
Never be that way again
We were seventeen
Never be that way again
Never be that way again
Never be that way again

I get back home at a quarter to four
Whatcha doing with your keys inside my door
Seventeen and you’ve never been here beforeeee
I tried my best not to put you down,
There’s a hole in my head where the words fall out
Don’t care what faithless people sayyyy
Should I careeeee
Ooooihhhhoooooo
Ooooihhhhoooooo
Seventeen
Ooooihhhhoooooo
Don’t change one thing
Ooooihhhhoooooo
We take our chances everyday
We watch those bleeding hearts decay
I'd walk through walls, would it make you stay
I burned my bridges and I’ve burned my friends
If I had my time I’d do it again
Don’t care what faithless people sayyyy
I don’t care
Seventeen
Ooooihhhhoooooo
Don’t change one thing
Ooooihhhhoooooo
Jus t burn to the end
At Seventeen girl
Ooooihhhhoooooo
Seventeen
Ooooihhhhoooooo
Don’t change one thing
Ooooihhhhoooooo
Just burn to the end
At seventeen girl
Ooooihhhhoooooo
I don’t wanna talk, I wanna go home
There’s a voice in my head, won’t leave me alone
I want you to follow me home
Cause I know this star that we transcend could be the only chance we get
Seventeen
I’ve never been here before
Seventeen
Ooooihhhhoooooo
Don’t change one thing
Ooooihhhhoooooo
Just burn to the end
At seventeen girl
Seventeen
Ooooihhhhoooooo
Don’t change one thing
Ooooihhhhoooooo
Just burn to the end
At seventeen girl

I was down the street one night
I was only made of light
Saw some kids from the park
They was howlin' the dark
They just wanna fuss and fight
I was only seventeen
Post-conventional
Only seventeen
It was as clear as crystal
That in its wildest dreams
Magic never thought
That it would get done
By the myth it gone slum(?)
All the goddesses and gods you brought
I was seventeen
When I saw it go down
Only seventeen
Back in that lonely town
All them gods and goddesses
Didn't imagine it at all
A race that could and would
Make 'em so temporal
Make 'em seem all rational
Only seventeen
Yet I still understood
I was all that you are
In your neighborhood
Yet here we all stood
Confident and smug, well-viewed.
Explodin' all (?)
I was only seventeen
Only seventeen
And we were pressed at the gills
The limitations of ourselves
That's what we're up against
Tomorrow's sun would sure rise
On a world that transcends
If this stormy night ever ends
If this stormy night ever ends
If this stormy night ever ends
This stormy night ever ends
If this stormy night ever ends
Ever ends
When's it gonna end?

I'm seventeen, I'm seventeen.
I'm seventeen years old, this can't be happening.
I'm seventeen, I'm seventeen.
I'm seventeen years old, this can't be happening.
At twenty-one I thought,
this is fine, but is this all there is?
At twenty-five I didn't feel alive
But I said that I'd get used to it.
I'm seventeen, I'm seventeen.
I'm seventeen years old, this can't be happening.
I'm seventeen, I'm seventeen.
I'm seventeen years old, this can't be happening.
La la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la
let's go hi hi hi yi
let's go hi hi hi yi
let's go hi hi hi yi
At thirty-one, I'm told,
I'll feel old, but I'd understand it.
At thirty-two I came unglued,
Now maybe I'd live.
I'm seventeen, I'm seventeen.
I'm seventeen years old, this can't be happening.
I'm seventeen, I'm seventeen.
I'm only seventeen years old, this can't be happening.
La la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la
let's go hi hi hi yi
let's go hi hi hi yi

I was only seventeen living out a reckless dream,
Riding those summer streets to the corner of High and 13
Me and other city boys running too wild and too bored
Looking for a grown man's toys out at that corner store
Well they threw the money to me and somebody's I.D.
I was in the parking lot scared as hell
Sending sixteen dollars down a wishing well
Two bottles of wine, those red and blue lights
Took a trip down town for the very first time
Watching my own life flash before my eyes
Like I was seventeen
She was from across the tracks with the private school laugh
We were both falling too fast down a river that wouldn't last
It was only one night and our first time
I was in the parking lot scared as hell
Sending sixteen dollars down a wishing well
I held her tight between those yellow lines
Sat there crying about a miscarried life
Watching my own life flash before my eyes
Like I was seventeen
Oh it was a lifetime ago
I pray for mercy walking on down that road
I met the woman of my dreams, she said yes to me
And she said, "Baby I'm late, never this late. I'm feeling a change. We
Should find out either way."
And I'm grabbing my keys and I'm shutting the front door
I can hardly breathe driving that familiar road
And I'm parked between those yellow lines
Looking down that aisle
Don't know whether to laugh or whether to cry
I'm in the parking lot scared as hell
Sending sixteen dollars down a wishing well
Two pink lines or maybe just one
Could be my daughter or it could be my son
Watching our own lives flash before my eyes
Like I was seventeen
Funny how the years switch around the tears that way

Seventeen
Claiming absolution
To perceptions of the world
You believe
The evidence is clear
The truths you hold so dear
You'll always be the same
Seventeen
Trying as they might
To show you things
You think you've already seen
You have no axe to grind
It's just that you'll be fine
You'll always be the same
You're the same
Seventeen
Seventeen
Your hopes and dreams
Are pressed between the pages
Of your reality
The feelings are ingrained
You have no heart to change
You'll always be the same
You're the same
Seventeen
Seventeen
You'll never see it coming
When you blink
And then it's all history
The way you think will change
You'll never be the same
You'll never be the same
You'll never be the same

I saw sparks fly, from the corner of my eye
And when I turned, it was love at first sight
I said please excuse me, I didn't catch your name
Oh it'd be a shame not to see you again
And just when I thought she was comin' to my door
She whispered sweet and brought me to the floor, she said
I'm only seventeen, but I'll show you love like you've never seen
She's only seventeen, daddy says she's too young, but she's old enough for me
Come to my place, we can talk it over, oh everything going down in your head
She said take it easy, I need some time, time to work it out, to make you mine
And just when I thought she was comin' to my door
She whispered sweet and brought me to the floor, she said
I'm only seventeen, you ain't seen love, ain't seen nothing like me
She's only seventeen, seventeen
(Solo)
Such a bad girl, loves to work me overtime
Feels good (ha), dancin' close to the borderline
She's a magic mountain, she's a leather glove
Oh she's my soul, it must be love
She's only seventeen, still she gives me love, like I've never seen
She's only seventeen, daddy says she's too young, but she's old enough for me
She's everything I need, daddy says she's too young
But she's old enough, old enough for me

Used to be a major scale,
But the melody went stale,
Musical cacophony let,
Insy Winsy spider free.
You're a rich little boy,
Who's had to work for his toys,
You've got all the sensibilities, oh,
Of an upper class guy.
No, no I'm not your little slave,
No I don't twist and turn that way,
Only got bad things to say,
You're always asking what is up, up with me,
Could never tell you what happened,
The day I turned seventeen,
The rise of a king and the fall of a queen,
Oh seventeen,
Seventeen.
Oh, you were embarrassed of me,
'Cause I used my tongue freely,
Bet you wish I couldn't speak,
'Cause when I do, you know,
I tell you why you appear weak.
You want a hassle free life?
Go get your upper class wife,
She's got all the personality, oh
Of a lemon that has been.
Truly sucked dry.
You teach me how to behave,
I felt you question the way,
I was brought up as a baby,
Well you don't know fuck about my family.
Could never tell you what happened
The day I turned seventeen
The rise of a king and the fall of a queen
Oh seventeen (seventeen),
Oh seventeen,
Oh seventeen,
The rise of the king and the fall of a queen,
Oh seventeen.
Never felt like a princess,
I used to kill myself in this dress,
That it was just how things,
Were meant to be,
Oh seventeen,

[Verse 1]
Five foot seven with light green eyes
Body built like a woman over twenty-five
Plus she push the whip that the average women couldn't get
Less she worked about two nine to five's
Girly played the game just a little too mature
She damn near had everything I was looking for
But things seemed shady
When I asked my lady to meet at the club
She had trouble at the door
That's when I found out that
(Ohh)
She was only seventeen years old
And I couldn't see her no more
(Ohh)
[Chorus:]
I ain't tryin to see myself locked up
For knockin up some young joan
(Ohh)
How could I explain this situation to my family
And all of my boys
(Ohh)
I'm sorry shorty
But you've got to get gone
Yeah
[Verse 2]
I tried to cut her off
But she wasn't having it
She kept telling me her age didn't mean sh--
And that's when she started to cry
Baby I need you in my life
And without you I just couldn't handle it
So what's a brother to do
(Ohh)
Either way I lose
(So)
I could just say my piece
Or piss off her peace
And talk it out with the boys in blue
Cause when it comes down to it
(Ohh)
She was just seventeen years old
And I was dead wrong from the door
(Ohh)
[Chorus]
[Dial tone]
[Keypad being dialed]
[Line rings]
[Automated voice]
--Welcome to your voice messaging service.
To enter your mailbox, press *. (Beep) First message --
[Female voice]
Yo, how you doin'? Call me when you get this.
(Beep) --Mess...-- (Beep)
[Female voice]
Yo, what's goin' on? I called you earlier.
I guess you aint get my message.
But when you get this, hit me back, aiight? Bye.
[To repeat..]-- (Beep) --Mess..-- (Beep)
[Female voice]
Hey! What got some b*tch over there or sump'in?
Can't pick up your phone. I been calling you and
tryin' to speak to you and you still don't answer the phone.
[To repeat...] -- (Beep) (Beep)
[Female voice]
See, you trying to play somebody.
As though I won't have to bring my n*ggas over there,
to kick ya ass! Ya think somebody playin' with ya ass.
Ya don't...ya don't return my calls. This is it.
[To repeat this...] -- (Beep) --Mess...-- (Beep)
[Fade out]

Wake up demonstrations
Said silence is the wrong word
I'm gonna keep the names
That I use for myself to myself
A summer sun is shining
What will it be tomorrow?
I want to watch the world
From the edge of my seat when it burns
Seventeen can't be wrong
Seventeen cannot see
I can't believe, it's been so long
Seventeen follow me
I want to walk the outside
They're burning down the houses
I'm gonna keep my eyes on the ground
When I walk, where I walk
I can't believe, it's been so long
Can't believe, I can't see
Seventeen can't be wrong
Seventeen fall on me
Never stop, never mind
Can't get good times
Summer day sunshine
Feels like anodyne
Phone jams gridlock
Standing at the bus stop
Ten o'clock tick-tock
Look at what the world's got
Please her, please me
Gonna make a big scene
Here comes, faith comes
Banging on a tin drum
Don't try, you can't fail
Can't win, you can't play
Ten o'clock tick-tock

Seventeen, I was living life
Chasing dreams and my hopes were high
Trying to get around my fear of
When and where do I go from here
I asked somebody close to me
Who could see a lot further than a boy could see
Oh, oh, oh and he said...
Oh my, oh my, oh my these days are flying by
I still feel seventeen inside, not one day over
Don't let the trials of life, change who you are tonight
Stay seventeen each time you get one year older
I said you're at that time of life when your heart is strong
Your future's bright, you can do no wrong
And don't you let those feelings out of sight
Keep a hold of them as the years go rolling by
These words have always stuck with me
But now I'm only getting what it all appears to mean
Oh, oh, oh and he said...
Oh my, oh my, oh my these days are flying by
I still feel seventeen inside, not one day over
Don't let the trials of life, change who you are tonight
Stay seventeen each time you get one year older
He said...my years have come and gone, in oh such little time
And I hope you live your life the way that I lived mine
Stay young at heart, stay young in mind
So I said...
Oh my, oh my, oh my these days are flying by
I'm still seventeen inside, not one day over
I won't let the trials of life, change who I am tonight
Stay seventeen each time you get one year older
One year older, one year older....oh my oh my oh my oh my

(Seventeen! )
Mama drama's got to go, Dad! (Seventeen! )
Nothing's gonna bring her back! (Seventeen! )
Experiment with something living! (Seventeen!...)
And I'm sweeter than sixteen!
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
(Seventeen! )
I've always longed for true affection (Seventeen! )
But you compare me to a corpse! (Seventeen! )
Stay with the dead, I'm joining the living! (Seventeen! )
'Cause I'm freer than sixteen!
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
Something's changing...
I can feel it...
I'm seventeen now...
Why can't you see it?
Seventeen and you can't stop me!
Seventeen and you won't boss me!
You cannot control me, Father.

What is this forced sympathy for heartbeats in the universe, distracting masses from our dirt
The planet earth is dying so how more can we wait for a signal sent from far, from deep
I'd like to spare your belief but how could they hear our call: its echo has spinned and trapped our scream
"There are 2 worlds and 2 worlds only
But the plane between them count as 1
From the sides, dim and twice as many...
Mark my words 8 and 8 and 1 will be the magic number, 17"
... at least that's what the lady said
A tragic number, 17 - That's what revealed the Star, le dix-sept
Whatever these words may mean... The omen is upon us, the Gipsy read our blood red dusk
Philosophers and prophets have failed to bend our curse - Ashes to Ashes for this world
It doesn't really matter for no one seems to care what happens in the final stage
"There are 2 worlds and 2 worlds only
But the plane between them count as 1
From the sides, dim and twice as many...
Mark my words 8 and 8 and 1 will be the magic number, 17"
...at least that's what the lady said
A tragic number, 17 - That's what revealed the Star, le dix-sept
The magic number, 17... at least that's what the lady said
A tragic number, 17 - That's what revealed the Star, le dix-sept
Seventeen...

Another Don Diva, I be hundred on teasers
I get cake from quick jerks with long heaters
1 7 hot steppin like tuckin ima be ya main bitch in the game like Nina
Aint Sabrina but the teenage magic
I have ear pups and it seem so graphic
The fake ID don’t got a mistake
Miss Banks keeps these niggas caught up in the teen angst
They’ve been tryin to look tryin to fuck
Since I first came through with the triple a cups
Now got hips-ips-ips and a butt
and I’m on radar like warm weather fronts
No candy, no hellos from strangers,
and mom dicks got four in a chamber
So you better proceed with caution
Or lay six feet deep somewhere foreign
They only want you when you’re seventeen
When you’re 21, you’re no fun
They take a Polaroid and let you go
Say they'll let you know
So come on
Turn the beat down a little bit
M I double S B A N K S
I keep the ? tucked in my breast
Snuck in the club, ID, half dressed
Got all them niggas by the bar impressed
I vaguely skim the crowd
And I peep her man lookin aroused
And maybe we can just retreat to the a-p-t
But that only if he d.t.e., nigga
Nigga that’s down to eat
Cause I’m down to leave
If you are a freakin
Parents left town for the weekend
we can do the freakin, keep sneakin
beep beep and I hop in the roof
he got a two seated beamer and a glock and a clip
And sittin in his lap he got a black four fifth
You can cock that shit and the bitch won’t trip
Cause I walk n talk n act like a lady
But he got me chillin at his crib like a baby
We hit the liquor now he wanna lick her
YKK he’s on my zipper
He wanna tickle my fancy
And just go downtown like delancey
So spit out your gum let your tongue check the nooks and crannies
Then pass the panties
Chorus
Seventeen is the age of consent, right?
And, ain’t nothing finer than a minor,
Keep these niggas eating at my diner
Turn 22 with the MAC eyeliner,
Got curfew so you better set the timer... now.
You got a girl goin crazy
My hormones are glowing, insane,
Please top me off like Pizza Hut, baby
We can do it in the butt, maybe
Not.
It’s like niggas just playin’
All the bitch is really saying is
We can do a day in this
That passenger seat looks vacant
And if you’re ready I’m yours for the taking
So hey shorty, what it is
You settle in the fizz by just sittin there lookin at it
Come take a sip of my crush put your hand on my blush better keep it on
the hush

All upon the shore
We sit together in the calm
Of the summer breeze
I move a little closer
And I slip my arm in yours
The sun shine bright upon the ocean waters
There until the glow of the evening
Sweep me up like the waves
And hold me tight in your arms
Tell me that you love me too
Knowing that you care
Makes me feel alive
Underneath the summer sky
We sit in silence in the warmth of the middaysun
With my head upon your shoulder
I melt into your embrace
The birds fly high above the ocean waters
There until the hush of the evening
Take me up like the tide
I'll always stay by your side
Love me the way I love you
Knowing that you care
Makes me feel alive
Our love is deeper than the ocean waters
Kiss me till the turn of the evening
Like the sand needs the sea
Your heart belongs here with me
Love me like I love you
Knowing that you love me (know you love me)
I feel so alive (and may my dreams come true)
Knowing that you love me (uhhhhhhhh)
I feel so alive (just you and me)
Knowing that you love me (know you love me)
I feel so alive (and may my dreams come true)
Knowing that you love me (uhhhhhhhh)

Cat-walk queen
Seventeen
What wild wonders have you seen?
From your balcony?
Extraordinary and obscene
She said
I know what you mean
What wild wonders have you seen?
In your fantasy?
And if I see you walking past
I'll stop you for an autograph
I will blush and you will laugh
I hear the queen of heaven sing to me
Cat-walk queen
Seventeen
Soon you'll be another face in a magazine
Extraordinarily serene
Yeah
You know what I mean
Things are very different now
Than they've ever been
And from the heart of the Kippax Street
I'll watch the world fall at your feet
You the toast of every town
That hangs the nazarine upside down
You're so very young
Let's get together angel, have some fun
You're so very young
Like a fire, like a thousand suns
You're so very young
Flutter like a moth
Flutter like the dove
Yeah
Sweet, sweet seventeen

(Nicole)- You know what I don't even know what's up with this cat,
but I know he's gonna be mine.
(Missy)- Yes I'm the supadupa I'm a supa star
I got a supa flow that goes supa far
I need a supa man that's got a supa ten
that can deactivate my body like a supa friend.
(Nicole)- He was the finest guy in school
he had the whole damn school on lock,
and I thought he was cute so when I see him I had to stop.
Boy how are you and by the way Nicole is my name.
So I slipped him my number showed him how I spit game.
(Chorus)- Call Me if you need someone to talk to.
Call me even though I'm seventeen. (Repeat)
(Nicole)- He was only seventeen and I was checkin him everyday,
and he's no beginner he made me hot like the middle of May.
I gotta find a way to keep all his attention on me.
So I slipped him a paper told him hit me up at three.
(Chorus)
(Nicole Rap)- Absorb the sunshine what's yours is mine.
You won't succeed without trying never blind.
See I'm the type of female to hold on like deodorant I roll on
and gets my flow on. I'm living in reality respect me.
My image is not a pocket book and I won't get took.
Girls get shook when they look
My style is John Blaze
so I'm Make it hot and leave somebody in a daze.
My age is seventeen what what. His age is seventeen what what.

When I was seventeen I got arrested by the cops
For drinking down at rocky devereux beach
I can’t tell dad what I did
He’ll say I’m just a kid
And punish me for things he’ll never teach
And you’ve got gum in one pocket
Visine in the other
You say you’re at one house
But sleep at another
The thing that we go through
To make sure they know you
Aren’t doing anything that you’re not supposed to do
Cause we’ll be smoking drinking never thinking
Get caught but we come back for more
Pretending things are alright
Everything wrong seems so right
But we still come back for more
Incense burning
Never learning
Can’t get up the room is still turning
Dread the curfew
Never trust you
Home by 12 so they can bust you
And you’re running out of things to say
But you know one thing for sure
Don’t tell dad
The bottle’s half empty
It’s filled up with water
The boyfriends in your room
He’s fucking your daughter
The things that we go through
To make sure they know you
Aren’t doing anything that you’re not suppose to do
I’ll make it up to you some how

He actin' up (You know he's too young)
It's all good 'cause I'mma be a'ight {Do what you gotta do}
He is so dumb (Girl, he is dumb)
Seventeen years and you're still too young
Boy, you don't know where I'm comin' from
Always hangin' out with your silly friends
Then run back to me again
Seventeen years and you're still too young
Boy, you don't know where I'm comin' from
When you gonna stop with your childish games
You don't even act your age
Ever since that day
You walked away
I'm letting go
Boy, you need to know
You said to me
You'd never be
The way that you are
But you are forever playin' these games
Seventeen years and you're still too young
Boy, you don't know where I'm comin' from
Always hangin' out with your silly friends
Then run back to me again
Seventeen years and you're still too young
Boy, you don't know where I'm comin' from
When you gonna stop with your childish games
You don't even act your age
You never change
Still playin' games
Play with my mind
You're runnin' out of time
I'm out the door
Can't take it no more
No need to cry
It's goodbye, goodbye
All the things I did for you
Tried to play me like a fool
Used to be the world to me
Now you're just a plain ol' G
Seventeen years and you're still too young
Boy, you don't know where I'm comin' from
Always hangin' out with your silly friends
Then run back to me again
Seventeen years and you're still too young
Boy, you don't know where I'm comin' from
When you gonna stop with your childish games
You don't even act your age
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Seventeen, but you still young in the mind
Runnin' behind your dog so hard
Go on with the tellie, yo'
Last week it was all about really, yo'
Now you flossin'
Squashin' all of the game that you're tossin'
My way, all the lies you might say
On the real, tho', you know we chill D-Low
We about to blow up or grow up
Seventeen years and you're still too young
Boy, you don't know where I'm comin' from
Always hangin' out with your silly friends
Then run back to me again
Seventeen years and you're still too young
Boy, you don't know where I'm comin' from
When you gonna stop with your childish games
You don't even act your age
Seventeen years and you're still too young (You're still too young)
Boy, you don't know where I'm comin' from
Always hangin' out with your silly friends (Your silly)
Then run back to me again (Seventeen)
Seventeen years and you're still too young (You're still too young)
Boy, you don't know where I'm comin' from
When you gonna stop with your childish games (Your childish)
You don't even act your age (Seventeen)
Seventeen years and you're still too young (You're still too young)
Boy, you don't know where I'm comin' from
Always hangin' out with your silly friends (Your silly)
Then run back to me again (Seventeen)
Seventeen years and you're still too young (You're still too young)
Boy, you don't know where I'm comin' from
When you gonna stop with your childish games (Your childish)
You don't even act your age

17! mama drama's got to go dad!
17! nothing's gonna bring her back!
17! experiment with something living!
17! cuz i'm sweeter than 16!
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
(17!) i've always longed for true affection!
(17!) but you compare me to a corpse!
(17!) stay with the dead i'm joining the living!
(17!) cuz i'm freer than 16!
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
somethings changing
i can feel it
i'm seventeen now
can't you see it?
seventeen and you cant stop me!
seventeen and you cant boss me!
you cannot control me father!

Hey, I don't know you
Hello my friend
Girl I've met you
Are you the same little girl I knew
Do you recall It wasn't such a long long time ago
I wanna know all about every single little thing you've
done
Tell me where you've been
Seventeen look at you know
(You got hold of my heart and won't let me go)
Seventeen look at you know
(You got hold of heart heart cos I love you so)
Seventeen
Yeah
Look back in time what do you see
Do you remember how it used to be
I was your plane I could never think of you that way
Cos everything changes so fast
That was then and this is now
What a fool I've been
Seventeen look at you know
(You got hold of my heart and won't let me go)
Seventeen look at you know
(Just keep a hold on my heart cos I love you so)
Seventeen
Yeah
We can take it fast
We can take it slow
Now are time has come here we are and here we go
Seventeen look at you know
(You got hold of my heart and won't let me go)
Seventeen look at you know
(Just keep a hold on my heart cos I love you so)

(Starboy singing)
Wish you could see her, wish you would see
she's the most beautiful girl in all of the world
and I love her. Honest oh honest i do
Wish you could see her wish you could see
she's the most beautiful girl in all of the world
and i won her. Honest oh Honest its true
don't it make you feel
don't it make you feel like your seventeen?
(Robin singing)
i feel my heart torn from my chest
and i have nothing to show for my shame
i couldn't swallow your bitter pill
and i'm desperate and lonely again
I need to see that you understand
I am so injured and angry at you
Don't it make you feel
I feel like i'm dying
don't it make you feel
i feel like i'm dying
don't it make you feel
like your seventeen?
I'd feel seventeen if we could dance
oh it's true
I wound up with pain when i wanted
romance thanks to you
I got my heart torn from my chest
and i have nothing to show for my pain
am i'm so easy to hunt and kill that i'm desperate and
lonley again
don't it make you feel
i feel like i'm dying
don't it make you feel
i feel like i'm dying
don't it make you feel
i feel like i'm dying
don't it make you feel
like your seventeen
I can't believe it
she's the most beautiful girl
don't it make you feel
I can't believe it
dont it make you feel like your seventeen
I can't believe it
ooh ooh
she's the most beautiful girl
don't it make you feel
like your seventeen
I can't believe it
ooh ooh
she the most beautiful girl
don't i make you feel
like your seventeen
I can't believe it