She Is Always Seventeen Lyrics

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Cover art for She Is Always Seventeen lyrics by Harry Chapin

When you're seventeen, the world is just opening up to you and you are just finding your power. You know that you can make it a better place and that the secrets are love and truth and peace.

As we get older, we can lose this power and lose this simplicity.

To be always seventeen is to never give up on that belief that the answer is simple (but not easy) in the end and to never stop trying to make the world a bit better even if you can only change your corner of it.

May I be always seventeen.

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