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Sep. 19, 20081 viewer29.4K views

17 Lyrics

[Chorus]
Oh, she's only seventeen
Whine and whine and whine, weep over everything
Bloody Mary breakfast busting up the scene

Brothers fighting, when's a baby gonna sleep?
Hidden ship that sails away

[Verse]
Said it's a culmination of a story
And a goodbye session
It's a tick of our time and the tick in her head
That made me feel so strange
So I could call you baby, I could call you, dammit
It's a one in a million
Oh, it's the rolling of your Spanish tongue
That made me wanna stay

[Chorus]
Oh, she's only seventeen
Whine and whine and whine, weep over everything
Bloody Mary breakfast busting up the scene

Brothers fighting, when's a baby gonna sleep?
Hidden ship that sails away

[Verse]
Said it's a culmination of a story
And a goodbye session
It's a tick of our time and the tick in her head
That made me feel so strange
So I could call you baby, I could call you, dammit
It's a one in a million
Oh, it's the rolling of your Spanish tongue
That made me wanna stay
[Instrumental Bridge]

[Outro]
I could call you baby, I could call you dammit
It's a one in a million
Oh, it's the rolling of your Spanish tongue
That made me wanna stay

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