Seventeen - Intellectual

[Verse 1]

We were a twenty-two dollar bottle of wine on a letterman coat

Sneaking out late every Sunday night with nowhere to go

And I thought I knew everything there was to know

But she showed me how wrong I could be our first night alone

And we were seventeen

We were digging down deep

And howling at the moon

Caught somewhere between

A little too late and way too soon

And we were seventeen

We were a four dollar pack of Marlboro Reds

And a hand-me-down Ford

Spent every last dime we had

Seeing what four on the floor would do

Everything we found just left us looking for more

They said, "Don't worry, son

No one knows what it is they're looking for

When you're seventeen"

We were digging down deep

And howling at the moon

Caught somewhere between

A little too late and way too soon

We were wanting something more

But clinging to our roots

You were an angel in a sun dress

I was a devil in boots

Oh, we were seventeen

I got that letter in the mail on the 1st of March

Taking me halfway across the country

Man, it nearly tore my heart in two

Wondering if what we thought we had could make it that far

Made me see

I thought that life wasn't supposed to be this hard

When you're seventeen

Oh, we were seventeen

Hey

Oh, you're seventeen