Seventeen-Russell Watson

[00:00.00] [00:08.57]That summer she let me hold her hand [00:14.16]And took my boyhood by surprise [00:19.64]Yet still I fail to understand [00:25.11]The hidden longing in her eyes [00:30.28] [00:30.53]Not a soul might well have seen [00:33.39]What hands and eyes can sometimes mean [00:38.47]But I was blind and seventeen [00:43.88] [00:45.16]That summer I bolted from the truth [00:49.81]Just as my sleeping heart began [00:55.51]To sense the sunrise of my youth [01:00.76]But I was still more boy than man [01:06.99]Lust in the language lies between [01:10.48]The life to come and seventeen [01:14.17] [01:15.56]At seventeen you know it all [01:20.83]You're riding high and talking tall [01:25.51]You're no one's fool and no one's child [01:29.60]The world and you were running wild [01:32.45]The charm you've drawn from films and books [01:35.19]A strong-nosed face, approving looks [01:39.71]You lived the script, you looked the part [01:45.17]Yet you're a stranger to the heart [01:51.17] [01:57.77]That summer she woke me with a kiss [02:03.44]And yet the prey refused the bait [02:07.69]The silence beckoned me to bliss [02:13.60]But to my shame, I saw too late [02:19.20] [02:20.26]It wasn't red she meant, but green [02:23.07]And now I see what might have been [02:28.50]When I was blind and seventeen [02:34.23] [02:35.30]That summer a part of me was burned [02:39.73]These days my act is well-rehearsed [02:45.19]But though I've lived, and loved, and learned [02:50.94]Each new affair is like the first [02:57.76]And I relive that summer scene [03:03.20]When I was blind and seventeen [03:13.96]