17 - Brazzaville

Take me to your house

And show me to all your family

I don’t care about

The fool that it makes me seem

'cause I know that you’re 17

And I’m just an aging dandy

The world is light and dark

And we live in between

When I was a boy

I wandered the streets of downtown

Staring at the sky

And feeling that I didn’t belong

In a world where the gentle seem wrong

And teeth get knocked out on Sundays

I lay down in the shower

And make it go away

This fading world

My lovely girl

And I know that you’re 17

And I’m just an aging dandy

The world is light and dark

And we live in between