[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]