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{instrumental}

I remember when
we had a lot of things to do,
impressed by all the words we read
and the heroes that we knew.
Climb on your your dream,
a dream of our own making
to find a place that we could later lose
to whatever time would bring.
We were seventeen
and the cakeman was affecting you,
moving you to greater things
(in a lesser way) you had to prove.
The clock struck summertime.
You were going round in circles now.
Wishing you were seventeen.
At twenty-one, it was a long time gone.
And now here you are.
You're locked in your own excuse.
The circle's getting smaller every day.
You're busy planning your next fifty years.
So stay the way you are
and keep your head down to the same old ground.
Just paint your picture boy until you find
a closed circle's better than an open line.
Yes stay the way you are.
I got a circle that's the same as yours.
It may be bigger, but I've more to lose.

an Instrumental

An einem Weihnachtsabend
an dem niemand mich rief
kam ein Freund in mein Zimmer
in dem ich schon schlief
er nahm meine Hand
er war mir bekannt
seine Stimme war naturgemäß tief
in den Bäumen und in den Sträuchern
regt sich ein Windhauch
und bläst in mein Ohr
heute bin ich glücklich
wie niemals zuvor
Wir hatten was zu reden
wie er so vor mir steht
vor meinem Bett in der Ecke
langsam wurde es spät
er nahm meine Hand
er war mir bekannt
ich wollte nicht dass er geht
in den Bäumen und in den Sträuchern
regt sich ein Windhauch
und bläst in mein Ohr
heute bin ich glücklich

I need your lovin' this I know
17, you drive me wild
You're just so lovely this I know, oh
I wanna make you mine, slip into my hands
I want it, I want it, I want it
Ooh, say it, say it, say it
Oh, takes my blood, take it, take it, take my life
Don't you know I really care for you, I really do, I do
Baby yes, I wanna be your sugar man
You want it this I know
17, there ain't no rules in heavens traffic

Sirens wail and a flashing light
Nothin' better to do on a Tuesday night
But give me hell
Where you headed, what are you out for
Don't see much of you 'round here anymore
I guess it's just as well
Once upon a time you had it all
You let everybody down
You're always seventeen in your hometown
Chorus:
Runnin' from your folks, runnin' from the law
Runnin' from love, runnin' from your fears, runnin' from it all
You keep on runnin' boy
You'll run yourself in the ground
You're always seventeen in your hometown
Her porch swing still looks the same
She probably won't even remember my name
Just like she didn't back then
Is she married, is she doin' fine
Does she know about all the nights
I laid awake cryin'
Just to know her hand
The door opens and I run away
Just like the same old clown
You're always seventeen in your hometown
(Repeat Chorus)
Nobody's gonna miss me
No tears will fall, no one's gonna weep
When I hit that road
My boots are broken, my brain is sore
From keeping up with their little world
I got a heavy load
Gonna leave 'em all just like before
I'm big city bound
You're always seventeen in your hometown

[instrumental]

Some people tell me, that you're not my kind
And i believe them, but i can't get you out of my mind
Some people tell me that i should stay away
Maybe I will... some other day
'Cause it feel right
And it feels good
And i don't do always that i should
And I know what makes me happy
And in my heart you're it exactly
I don't wanna do right, I just want you tonight
Not just only in my dreams
Save my best behavior, for a little later
'Cause I'm only 17
Think i made my mind up, i got time to grow up
Face responsibility
Livin' in the moment, keepin' my heart open
While I'm only 17
(Only 17...)
I'll learn my lessons, and i'll make mistakes
And If i get burned (get burned), it'll be my heart to break
It isn't easy, hearing what they say
Sometimes you've got to take a leap of faith
'Cause it feel right
And it feels good
And I'm not gonna do something stupid
Just this once, i wanna feel like
I can do what i want when i hold tight
I don't wanna do right, I just want you tonight
Not just only in my dreams
Save my best behavior, for a little later
'Cause I'm only 17
Think i made my mind up, i got time to grow up
Face responsibility
Livin' in the moment, keepin' my heart open
While I'm only 17
(Only 17...)
Anyone, who's ever been in love
Has got to know
What it means to have a dream
And no one can say anything
To change my mind, no, not this time
I don't wanna do right, I just want you tonight
Not just only in my dreams
Save my best behavior, for a little later
'Cause I'm only 17
Think i made my mind up, i got time to grow up
Face responsibility
Livin' in the moment, keepin' my heart open
While I'm only 17
(Only 17...)
Baby, got time to grow up...
.. to face responsibility...
...hopin'... open...

Take me to your house
And show me to all your family
I don't care about
The fool that it makes me seem
'Cause I know that you're 17
And I'm just an aging dandy
The world is light and dark
And we live in between
When I was a boy
I wandered the streets of downtown
Staring at the sky
And feeling that I didn't belong
In a world where the gentle seem wrong
And teeth get knocked out on Sundays
I lay down in the shower
And make it go away
This fading world
My lovely girl
And I know that you're 17
And I'm just an aging dandy
The world is light and dark

Oh, she's only 17
Wind and wind and wound up over everything
Bloody Mary breakfast busting up the scene
Brothers frightened and when's a baby gonna sleep
Hidden ship that sails away
Said it's a culmination of a story and a goodbye session
It's the tick of our time and the tick in her hair
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 her Spanish tongue
That made me want to stay
Oh, she's only 17
Wind and wind and wound up over everything
Bloody Mary breakfast busting up the scene
Brothers frightened when's a baby gonna sleep
Hidden ship that sails away
Said it's a culmination of a story and a goodbye session
It's the tick of our time and the tick in her hair
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 her Spanish tongue
That made me want to stay
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

You're only 29
Got a lot to learn
But when your business dies
You will not return
We like noise it's our choice
It's what we wanna do
We don't care about long hair
I don't wear
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 a lazy sod
I'm a lazy sod
Lazy
I'm a lazy sod
I'm a lazy sod
I'm a lazy sod

Don't you think you're a bit too grey
Inviting her out for a coffee
Enamoured by pictures you paint
Spontaneous lust so nave
Making out
Strawberries and skinny swimming
Keeps coming back because she was young
And thats how you like them to stay
Hold me hold me
Tell me I'm the only
One I want to
17 and lonely
I want you
I want you
All to myself
Thats what he told me
Casual you ask her to play
Illusions of romance burning
Innocent but still no mistakes
Cause she smelled his last girl victim
Sneaking out
Heart pounding her bare feet racing
Dangerously close to her last chance
Cause he almost got her to stay
Hold me hold me
Tell me I'm the only
One I want to
17 and lonely
I want you
I want you
All to myself
Thats what he told me
Hold me hold me
Tell me I'm the only
One I want to
17 and lonely
Shes just 17
He knows what works he put out the bait
She bites again unsuspecting
Hes beautiful such a worldly face
Shes thinking hell be her teacher
Figured out
Shes soft and she thinks you're worth it
Keeps coming back each time more jaded
We wonder what made her that way
We wonder what made her that way
Hold me hold me
Tell me I'm the only
One I want to
17 and lonely
I want you
I want you
All to myself
Thats what he told me
Hold me hold me
Tell me I'm the only
One I want to
17 and lonely
I want you
I want you
All to myself
Thats what he told me

arrested in the morning sun
the breaking of the crops today
the smoke from a hundred miles
would you bargain if you had the chance
to go back & forth again
and fall forever forever forever fall
17 living for no end tonight
never wanted her like this
I never wanted her like this
I'm running out the door
gonna see a rock show now gonna be so naive
smoking fags with fags with fags with fags
17 living for no end tonight
love for you for free nothing but this afternoon
what you wore what you said
don't you forget about me
Mr. Adams, I'm not smart enough for scholars
for you for free this feeling

Don't you think you're a bit too grey
Inviting her out for a coffee
Enamoured by pictures you paint
Spontaneous lust so nave
Making out
Strawberries and skinny swimming
Keeps coming back because she was young
And thats how you like them to stay
Hold me hold me
Tell me I'm the only
One I want to
17 and lonely
I want you
I want you
All to myself
Thats what he told me
Casual you ask her to play
Illusions of romance burning
Innocent but still no mistakes
Cause she smelled his last girl victim
Sneaking out
Heart pounding her bare feet racing
Dangerously close to her last chance
Cause he almost got her to stay
Hold me hold me
Tell me I'm the only
One I want to
17 and lonely
I want you
I want you
All to myself
Thats what he told me
Hold me hold me
Tell me I'm the only
One I want to
17 and lonely
17
Shes just 17
He knows what works he put out the bait
She bites again unsuspecting
Hes beautiful such a worldly face
Shes thinking hell be her teacher
Figured out
Shes soft and she thinks you're worth it
Keeps coming back each time more jaded
We wonder what made her that way
We wonder what made her that way
Hold me hold me
Tell me I'm the only
One I want to
17 and lonely
I want you
I want you
All to myself
Thats what he told me
Hold me hold me
Tell me I'm the only
One I want to
17 and lonely
I want you
I want you
All to myself
Thats what he told me
17

I've been dreaming of this since I was seventeen.
Nothing comes between
My motivation my
Destination. Somebody please
Let's unite this scene.
You just bitch, and bitch about everything.
But you never stop to see
What you're crying for.
I doesn't matter how punk you are
Or what he's done. You've gone to far.
It's about the music. (It's about the music)
Been dreaming of this since I was seventeen.
Nothing comes between
My motivation my
Destination. Somebody please
Let's unite this scene.
Cause I,
Just want someone to make it.
And we,
All blind what could make us,
So let's quit bitching at all.
Don't blind light
To open skies
Or bring on lies
For your pride.
Compromise.
(Motivation,
Destination,
Somebody please...)
I held the right card in your hand.
With a promised game you'd understand.
I held the right card in your hand.
So take your time,
You're giving in to me
You're taking over my dreams
Since I was seventeen. (my motivation, my)
Since I was seventeen. (destination, somebody please)

A little girl came up to me, acting young and shy
A look of curiosity was flashing in her eyes
She had seen my face before and thought she knew me well
So I said "Shall we talk some more, you'll come to my hotel"
She was only seventeen, seventeen
But she was sexy
She was only seventeen, seventeen
She said she loved me
Seventeen years old
Seventeen years old
How we talked all through the night and never even touched
Even talked of love and life, I wanted her that much
She said she'd read a magazine that said I was a freak
"You'll never know now, little girl, unless you take a peak"
She was only seventeen, seventeen
And she was sexy
She was only seventeen, seventeen
But she was you and fine and oh so tender
Would I break down tonight and surrender
This young girl, this sweet thing, I just can't wait
No, I mustn't do this, she's almost jailbait!
Seventeen years old
Seventeen years old
A little girl came up to me, acting young and shy
A look of curiosity was flashing in her eyes
She had seen my face before and thought she knew me well
So I said "Shall we talk some more, you'll come to my hotel"
She was only seventeen, seventeen
But she was sexy
She was only seventeen, seventeen
And she was you and fine and oh so tender
Would I break down tonight and surrender
YEAH!!
Seventeen years old, sexy, sexy
Seventeen years old, sexy, sexy
Seventeen years old, sexy, sexy
Seventeen years old, sexy, sexy
Seventeen years old, sexy, sexy
Seventeen and she was you and fine and oh so tender
Would I break down tonight and surrender
This young girl, this sweet thing, I just can't wait
No, I shouldtn't do this, she's almost jailbait!
Come here little girl
Seventeen years old, seventeen and sexy
Seventeen years old, seventeen and sexy
Seventeen years old, seventeen and sexy
She was only seventeen

I was only 17 when he
Came around and passed my way
He was the finest thing I'd ever seen
And his eyes were green
Him and the boys played basketball
While I was chillin' at the park
He had a smile that could shine a light
On your darkest days
Came up to me and said
"Excuse me, what's your name?
I was just wondering
If you would like to get away"
"Do you remember me
At the age of 17?
You fell in love with me
But it was never ever meant to be"
Later on as we got to know each other
I just wanted this day to last forever
But as I learned more 'bout him
I wondered if I'd ever see him again
There was something 'bout the way he made me feel
Felt as though the whole world were standing still
And when we talked I could see
He was the perfect man for me
When he took me home that night
I knew that I was gone
He walked me to my door
And that's when I started to write this song
Do you remember me
At the age of 17?
You fell in love with me
But it was never ever meant to be
Do you remember me
At the age of 17?
You fell in love with me
But it was never ever meant to be
I fell in love the moment I laid my eyes on him
But that's just the problem
'Cause he was already in a relationship
He said he wasn't happy, it wasn't working
And I reminded him of the way that she used to be
He said he couldn't stay and that was just the way
At the sweet age of 17
Do you remember me
At the age of 17?
You fell in love with me

I was born in Birmingham
But soon I would escape
With education incomplete
But two songs on a tape
When my girlfriend was expelled
We took the London coach
Her sister gave her daffodils
Her mother an old brooch
And she smiled
And she smiled and she smiled
She was so beautiful, 17
She was so beautiful, 17
We didn't have much money then
No Hi-Fi or TV
So, we made love, I'd sing her songs
And she would read to me
But we were young
I didn't know what love was all about
And when I slept with her best friend
Of course she threw me out
And we cried
And we cried and we cried
She was so beautiful, 17
She was so beautiful, 17
I was looking for a deal
Looking for a hit
The affectations of success
The airs that goes with it
While she was looking for a man
Who didn't need a maid
She modeled for an agency
Who made sure she got paid
And she smiled
And she smiled and she smiled
She was so beautiful, 17
She was so beautiful, 17
She was so beautiful, 17
I was an empty headed libertine

It's deep inside
But I don't know what for
You never seemed to like me when I knew you best
It takes me back
But I don't know what for
You never seemed to want me anyway
If I go crazy
Will you still be
The only photograph I see
Seventeen photographs
Four short days, three long nights
Seventeen photographs
Four short days, three long nights
On second thought
It's so hard to say
It's hidden in some pictures I took long ago
Last July
But it's so hard to say
You never really liked me anyway
If I go crazy
Will you still be
The only photograph I see
Seventeen photographs
Four short days, three long nights
Seventeen photographs
Four short days, three long nights
It's killing me
It's stuck inside
Can't get you out
Even when I tried
It's all the same
It took a while
I can't complain
Now I know I hate your smile

ba, ba, ba, di, da, da, da, da, da
ba, ba, ba, di, da, da, da, da, da
ba, ba, ba, di, da, da, da, da, da
ba, ba, ba, di, da, da, da, da, da
She, she, she,
she came home late again tonight,
you could see it in her eyes,
she's been up to something.
Oh, whoa, we, we, we,
don't know what to do with her,
she's from a different world,
and it's apparent now this girl is hiding,
something in the way she gives a confident excuse,
there's no way they'd ever know shes been —
Sneaking out at night,
she's dancing at the night club,
yeah, she got a fake ID,
and they'll never know she's 17.
Oh, and she's drinking with her friends,
and they're all 21,
I wonder how much longer she can get away with —
her dirty little secret.
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ba, ba, ba, di, da, da, da, da, da
Mom and dad,
they don't seem to understand,
she's got so many older friends,
they pick her up every Wednesday night.
She breaks the rules,
she makes a fool of everyone,
she won't give up until shes done,
and it's apparent now this girl is missing,
something in the way she gives a confident excuse,
there's no way they'd ever know shes been —
Sneaking out at night,
she's dancing at the night club,
yeah, she got a fake ID,
and they'll never know she's 17.
Oh, and she's drinking with her friends,
and they're all 21,
I wonder how much longer she can get away with —
her dirty little secret.
She hides the pain behind the fun,
she said she doesn't need anyone at all,
they say she's living way too fast,
I wonder how long she can last before she falls —
to the ground.
Something in the way she pushes everyone away,
there's no way they'd ever know —
Sneaking out at night,
she's dancing at the night club,
yeah, she got a fake ID,
and they'll never know she's 17.
Oh, and she's drinking with her friends,
and they're all 21,
I wonder how much longer she can get away with —
her dirty little secret.
ba, ba, ba, di, da, da, da, da, da
ba, ba, ba, di, da, da, da, da, da
ba, ba, ba, di, da, da, da, da, da

One life, seventeen ways
Seventeen times, a devastating heartbreak
Seventeen calls, before I leave you
Seventeen mistakes, you all have to go through
Don't bleed, don't creep
Don't crawl, don't cry over me
Don't cry, waste your time
Just feel okay
You better believe
And feel that life has seventeen ways
Seventeen cards, before you pull the right one
Seventeen burdens, but only one breaks you down
Seventeen chances, but only one way to go
Seventeen clowns, but only one to be afraid of

can t get rid of your feeling
I should give it up and spit it out
I can t find my own, join your crowd
I move in circles, you make my tracks
fluorescent lies, smoke filled rooms
is where I ended up with broken past
the room would swell, I m in bloom
confuse me first consume me last
please get away from your disco clouds
and the days we ve taken all for granted now
are the days I cannot wait to pretend again and again
we could last forever
it s hell for the tourist, photo call
to capture the moment when you fall
please get away from your disco clouds
your disco clouds
please get away from your disco clouds
your disco clouds
days we ve taken all for granted
days we ve taken all for granted
and the days we ve taken all for granted
all for granted now
are the days I cannot wait to pretend again and again

We've become nothing at all
Lead through the back of our spines
And as our heads hit the floor
We were dead 17 times
And every minute regret
That sank its teeth in my mind
Says all that needs to be said
And said it 17 times
Oh, oh, oh, we never did let it come to this
So don't give up me
I still can't forget
And while I'm still late
Some might say, some might say
I'll be your biggest regret
They say I'm never inept
Oh lay oh, Oh lay oh
So don't give up on me yet
And everything that I said
Was just a slip of the tongue
To reinforce when I meant
That cliche; you're number one
Let me through, oh, so far away
And said it 17 times
So don't give up on me
I still can't forget
And while I'm still late
Some might say, some might say
I'll be your biggest regret
They say I'm never inept
Oh lay oh, Oh lay oh
So don't give up on me yet
I still can't forget
And while I'm still late
Some might say, some might say
I'll be your biggest regret
They say I'm never inept
Oh lay oh, Oh lay oh
So don't give up on me
Don't give up on me
Oh lay oh, oh lay oh x8
We've become nothing at all
Lead through the back of our spines
And as our heads hit the floor
We were dead 17 times
And every minute regret
That sank its teeth in my mind
Says all that needs to be said

I was only 17 when he
Came around and passed my way
He was the finest thing I'd ever seen
And his eyes were green
Him and the boys played basketball
While I was chillin at the park
He had a smile that could shine a light
On your darkest days
He came up to me and said
Excuse me what's your name
I was just wondering if you would like 2 get away
[Chorus]
Do you remember me?
At the age of 17
You fell in love with me
But it was never ever meant to be
Later on as we got to know each other
I just wanted this day to last forever
But as I learned more bout him
I wondered if I'd ever see him again
There was something bout the way he made me feel
It felt as though the whole world were standing still
And when we talked I could see
He was the perfect man for me
When he took me home that night
I knew that I was gone
He walked me to my door
And that's when I started to write this song
[Chorus]
Do you remember me?
At the age of 17
You fell in love with me
But it was never ever meant to be
Do you remember me?
I was only 17
Lived my life so wild and free
But it was never ever meant to be
I fell in love the moment I laid my eyes on him
But that's just the problem
Cuz he was already in a relationship
He said he wasn't happy
It wasn't working
And I reminded him of the way that she used to be
He said he couldn't stay and that was just the way
At the sweet age of 17