II say, here stand I

I can′t do otherwise

But is it enough?And why'd you look so tough?

Back at Patrick Park

We stood in the dark

In my beer-stained mind

I said "please won′t you be mine?"

There's something dark hanging over my head

I'm seventeen, don′t hold your breath

There′s something dark hanging over my head

I'm seventeen, don′t hold your breath

On the high school lot

You'd kiss me so long

But lessons don′t last

When I'm playing you so fast

There′s something dark hanging over my head

I'm seventeen, don't hold your breath

There′s something dark hanging over my head

I′m seventeen, don't hold your breath

Punch and first collapse

Drunk at winter dance

Looks in red dress

Oh, what an awful mess

There′s something dark hanging over my head

I'm seventeen, don′t hold your breath

There's something dark hanging over my head

I′m seventeen, don't hold your breath