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Janis Ian's, "At Seventeen"
Misheard Lyrics:
And high school girls with clear-skinned smiles
American and infantile.
American and infantile.
Original Lyrics:
And high school girls with clear skinned-smiles
Who marry young and then retire.
Who marry young and then retire.
Janis Ian's, "At Seventeen"
Misheard Lyrics:
And high school girls with clear-skinned smiles
American and infantile.
American and infantile.
Original Lyrics:
And high school girls with clear-skinned smiles
Who marry young and then retire.
Who marry young and then retire.
Janis Ian's, "At Seventeen"
Misheard Lyrics:
And table for the elderly
Original Lyrics:
And haven for the elderly
Janis Ian's, "At Seventeen"
Misheard Lyrics:
And those of us with added faces
Original Lyrics:
And those of us with ravaged faces
Janis Ian's, "At Seventeen"
Misheard Lyrics:
And those of us with rabbit's faces
Lacking in the social graces.
Lacking in the social graces.
Original Lyrics:
And those of us with ravaged faces
Lacking in the social graces.
Lacking in the social graces.
Janis Ian's, "At Seventeen"
Misheard Lyrics:
And those of us with radish faces
Lacking in the choice of races.
Lacking in the choice of races.
Original Lyrics:
And those of us with ravished faces
Lacking in the social graces.
Lacking in the social graces.
Janis Ian's, "At Seventeen"
Misheard Lyrics:
And those of us with rubbish faces
Lacking in the social graces.
Lacking in the social graces.
Original Lyrics:
And those of us with ravaged faces
Lacking in the social graces.
Lacking in the social graces.
Janis Ian's, "At Seventeen"
Misheard Lyrics:
Destiny remains at home
Original Lyrics:
Desperately remained at home
Janis Ian's, "At Seventeen"
Misheard Lyrics:
I learned the truth of seven seas
Original Lyrics:
I learned the truth at seventeen
Janis Ian's, "At Seventeen"
Misheard Lyrics:
I murdered, faked insanity
All ugly girls like me, at seventeen.
All ugly girls like me, at seventeen.
Original Lyrics:
And murmur vague obscenities
At ugly girls like me, at seventeen.
At ugly girls like me, at seventeen.
Janis Ian's, "At Seventeen"
Misheard Lyrics:
Lacking in the social distance
Original Lyrics:
Lacking in the social graces
Janis Ian's, "At Seventeen"
Misheard Lyrics:
Those of us with average faces.
Original Lyrics:
Those of us with ravaged faces.
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