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Edge of Seventeen
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- written by Stevie Nicks
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- appears on Bella Donna (1981); Timespace - The Best of Stevie Nicks (1991);
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Enchanted boxed set (1998) (live version); VH1 Storytellers (2000) (live version)
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- released as a single; b-side: Edge of Seventeen (live) (U.S. February 1982)
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- released as a single; b-side: Outside the Rain (U.K. April 1982)
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- b-side to 12" single Whole Lotta Trouble (U.K. October 1989)
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- b-side to CD single I Can't Wait (U.K. November 1991) (live)
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- hit #11 on the Pop Charts
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Lyrics
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Just like the white winged dove...
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sings a song ...
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Sounds like she's singing...
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whoo...whoo...whoo
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Just like the white winged dove...
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sings a song...
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Sounds like she's singing...
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ooo...baby...ooo...said ooo
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And the days go by....
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like a strand in the wind
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In the web that is my own...
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I begin again
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Said to my friend, baby...
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Nothin' else mattered
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He was no more...than a baby then
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Well he... seemed broken hearted...
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something within him
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But the moment...that I first laid...
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Eyes...on...him...all alone...
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On the edge of...seventeen
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Just like the white winged dove...
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sings a song ...
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Sounds like she's singing...
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whoo...whoo...whoo
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Just like the white winged dove...
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sings a song...
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Sounds like she's singing...
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ooo...baby...ooo...said ooo
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I went today...maybe I will go again...
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tomorrow
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And the music there it was hauntingly...
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familiar
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And I see you doing...
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what I try to do for me
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With the words from a poet...
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and the voice from a choir
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And a melody...nothing else mattered
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Just like the white winged dove...
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sings a song ...
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Sounds like she's singing...
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whoo...whoo...whoo
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Just like the white winged dove...
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sings a song...
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Sounds like she's singing...
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ooo...baby...ooo...said ooo
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The clouds...never expect it...
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when it rains
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But the sea changes colours...
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but the sea...
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Does not change
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And so...with the slow...graceful flow..
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of age
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I went forth...with an age old...
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desire...to please
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On the edge of...seventeen
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Just like the white winged dove...
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sings a song ...
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Sounds like she's singing...
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whoo...whoo...whoo
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Just like the white winged dove...
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sings a song...
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Sounds like she's singing...
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ooo...baby...ooo...said ooo
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Well then suddenly...
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there was no one...left standing
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In the hall...yeah, yeah...
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In a flood of tears
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That no one really ever heard fall at all
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Oh I went searchin' for an answer...
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Up the stairs...and down the hall
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Not to find an answer...
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just to hear the call
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Of a nightbird...singing...
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come away...come away...
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Just like the white winged dove...
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sings a song ...
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Sounds like she's singing...
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whoo...whoo...whoo
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Just like the white winged dove...
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sings a song...
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Sounds like she's singing...
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ooo...baby...ooo...said ooo
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Well I hear you in the morning...
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and I hear you...
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At nightfall...
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sometime to be near you...
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Is to be unable...to hear you...
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my love...
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I'm a few years older than you...
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are (I'm a few years older than you) my love
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Just like the white winged dove...
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sings a song...
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Sounds like she's singing...
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ooo baby...ooo...said ...(repeat)
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Edge of Seventeen
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Steve Nicks |