Seventeen

I'm just seventeen shy of the all-time high
Get low, get down, get by
I've got one more year till my eighteenth here
When I can show you mine

The possession of my body isn't compromised
By the lack of its permission to leave
I am mine
And in my youth I find
I was never meant to be clean
And what I seem to find peculiar
The lack of your perception to see
I can't be tamed by your naiveté, no
I gotta know the notion of feeling free

I'm just seventeen shy of the all-time high
Get low, get down, get by
I've got one more year till my eighteenth here
When I can show you mine

You're dangling my dignity just outta my reach
But independence isn't a sin
Except when you're defined as a minor
Then God forbid I taint my skin
And what I seem to find peculiar
The lack of your perception to read
Between my lines, I'm on the other side
Just waiting for my day to be free

I'm just seventeen shy of the all-time high
Get low, get down, get by
I've got one more year till my eighteenth here
When I can show you mine

My eyes have been closed
To the weight of the world
I don't wish to be deaf by your palms anymore
Warn me of the way I love with no control
I was born to wreck this home

I'm just seventeen shy of the all-time high
Get low, get down, get by
I've got one more year till my eighteenth here
When I can show you mine

All mine
Hey
All mine