Seventeen -

won’t you play that song again

for me and for my girl

for what once was ours

and is forever in the world

tomorrow morning’s gonna roll around

like a lead pipe to my brain

my hands are freezing

and I’m standing out in the rain

when I was seventeen

my baby and me, laying in the fields

she said 'you know this won’t last'

I knew back then.

and I sure know it now

my daddy was a rich man

me I am so poor

I guess I forgot

just what he raised me for

the world’s just flashing lights and noise

but I don’t feel a thing

I come home late

I lay my head down and dream

when I was seventeen

my baby and me singing to Ocean Colour Scene

and driving in my parent’s car

we chased the stars across the sky.

the moon was mine

tonight I’m all alone

in a bar one hundred stories high

the beer chills your bones

and no one looks you in the eye

but I still see her in her summer dress

her toe nails painted red

and the promise of tomorrow

in every word she said

when I was seventeen

my baby and me laying in the fields

she said 'nothing will feel this way again'

I know it now.

like I knew it back then

so won’t you play that song again

for me and for my girl

for what once was ours

and is forever in the world