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Seventeen

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wake up demonstrations
said silence is the wrong word
i'm gonna keep the names
that i use for myself to myself

a summer sun is shining
what will it be tomorrow?
i want to watch the world
from the edge of my seat
when it burns

seventeen
can't be wrong
seventeen
cannot see
i can't believe
it's been so long
seventeen
follow me

i want to walk the outside
they're burning down the houses
i'm gonna keep my eyes
on the ground
when i walk
where i walk

i can't believe
it's been so long
can't believe
i can't see
seventeen
can't be wrong
seventeen
fall on me

never stop
nevermind
can't get good times
summer day
sunshine
feels like anodyne
phone jams
gridlock
standing at the bus stop
ten'o clock
tick-tock
look at what the world's got
please her
please me
gonna make a big scene
here comes
faith comes
banging on a tin drum
don't try
you can't fail
can't win
you can't play
ten'o clock
tick-tock
look at what the world's got

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spliphstar On Jan 02, 2002

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2002-01-02 12:32:00

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by thebodiesobtained

18y ago

I think seventeen refers to age, as in being seventeen years old. A lot of people at that age think they're very seasoned and they already know everything, hence the lines, "i can't believe/it's been so long/can't believe/i can't see/seventeen/can't be wrong/seventeen/fall on me." Some lines convey the revolutionary attitude teenagers sometimes have (or had), like "wake up demonstrations said silence is the wrong word," "i want to watch the world from the edge of my seat when it burns," "i want to walk the outside/they're burning down the houses," and "gonna make a big scene/here comes/ faith comes/banging on a tin drum." Besides those parts, I don't know.

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