Edge of Seventeen (Live with the Melbourne Symphony, 2006)

Just like the white winged dove

Sings a song, sounds like she singing

Whoo, whoo, whoo

Just like the white winged dove

Sings a song

Sounds like she's singin'

Whoo, whoo, whoo

And the days go by like a strand in the wind

In the web that is my own

I begin again

Said to my friend

Baby, you know, nothing else matters here

He was no more than a baby then

Well, well he seemed broken hearted

It was something within him

But the moment

That I first laid

Eyes on him

All alone on the edge of

Somewhere, on the edge of seventeen

Just like the white winged dove

Sings a song

Sounds like she's singin'

Whoo, whoo, whoo

Just like the white winged dove

Sings a song

Sounds like she's singin'

Whoo, whoo, whoo

Well I went today

Maybe I will go again tomorrow

Well, well, well, the music there it was hauntingly familiar

And I see you doing what I try to do for me

With the words from a poet and the voice from a choir

And a melody

And nothing else matters, yeah

Just like the white winged dove

Sings a song

Sounds like she's singin'

Whoo, whoo, whoo

Just like the white winged dove

Sings a song

Sounds like she's singin' to ya

Whoo, baby, whoo, whoo

Well those clouds never expect it when it rains

But the sea changes colors

But the sea does not change

Sea, it does not change, does not change, does it?

So with the slow graceful flow of age

I went forth with an age old desire to please

On the edge of seventeen

Just like the white winged dove

Sings a song

Sounds like she's singin'

Whoo, whoo, whoo

Just like the white winged dove

Sings a song

Sounds like she's singin'

Whoo, baby, whoo, whoo

And then suddenly

There was no one left standing in the hall

In a flood of tears that no one really heard fall at all but me

I went searchin' for an answer

Up the stairs and down the hall

I did not find an answer

But I did hear the call

Of a night bird

Singing come away, come now, come now (come away)

Just like the white winged dove

Sings a song

Sounds like she's singin'

Whoo, baby, whoo, whoo

Just like the white winged dove

Sings a song

Sounds like she's singin'

Whoo, baby, whoo, whoo

Well I hear you (I hear you)

In the morning (In the morning)

And I hear you (and I hear you)

At nightfall (nightfall)

Sometimes to be near you

Is to be unable to hear you, my love

I'm a few years older than you, my love

Just like the white winged dove

Sings a song

Sounds like she's singin'

Whoo, baby, whoo, whoo

Just like the white winged dove

Sings a song

Sounds like she's singin' it for you

Whoo, baby, whoo, whoo

I hear the call

Of a night bird

I hear the call

Of a night bird

I still hear the call

Of a night bird

It says come away, come away, come away

Go

She said somewhere deep in the middle of the night, baby

I think about you

She said somewhere deep in the middle of the night, my baby

I think about you

She said I know what it sounds like

I know what it sounds like

I know what it sounds like

Sounds like you

I know what it sounds like

I know what it sounds like