Janis Ian
"At Seventeen"
I leaned the truth at seventeen that love was meant for beauty queens
And high school girls with clear-skinned smiles who married young and then
   retired.
The valentines I never knew, the Friday night charades of youth
Were spent on one more beautiful.  At seventeen I learned the truth.
And those of us with ravaged faces, lacking in the soc
Tell Tale Heart lyrics

don't tell me what it's like to love someone a different song for a different girl 
and to think i might be wrong tell tale heart again words 
like these won't win these words and hearts you 
ial graces,
Desperatly remained at home, inventing lovers on the phone
Who called to say, "Come dance with me," and murmured vague obscenities.
It isn't all it seems at seventeen.
A brown-eyed girl in hand-me-downs whose name I never could pronounce
Said, "Pity, please, the ones who serve; they only get what they deserve.
The rich relationed hometown queen marries into what she needs.
A guarantee o
Engine No.9 lyrics

This ain't no motherf**kin' stick up just pick up the stick up
And watch it roll real close rolling out of my hand 'til
It cracks to that f**king dome living off the curb
That peels you f
f company and haven for the elderly."
Remember those who win the game lose the love they sought to gain.
In debentures of quality and dubious integrity.
Their small-town eyes will gape at you in dull surprise when payment due
Exceeds accounts received at seventeen.
To those of us who know the pain of valentines that never came,
And those whose names were never called when choosing sides for basketb
Face lyrics

Come along with me on an acid trip
I take your mind to a terminal bliss
You're bound and gagged
Ah ha ha ha
Motherfuckers I laugh

This chick that stayed with me last nightall.
It was long ago and far away; the world was much younger than today
And dreams were all they gave away for free to ugly duckling girls like me.
We all play the game and when we dare to cheat ourselves at solitaire.
Inventing lovers on the phone, repenting other lives unknown
That call and say, "Come dance with me," and murmur vague obscenities
At ugly duckling girls like me at seventeen.