Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she's singing
Ooh, ooh, ooh
Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she's singing
Ooh, baby ooh, said ooh
And the days go by
Like a strand in the wind
In the web that is my own
I begin again
Said to my friend, baby
Nothing else mattered
He was no more than a baby then
Well, he seemed broken hearted
Something within him
But the moment that I first laid
Eyes on him
All alone on the edge of seventeen
Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she's singing
Ooh, baby ooh, said ooh
Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she's singing
Ooh, baby ooh, said ooh
Well I went today, maybe I will go again tomorrow, yeah yeah
And the music there it was hauntingly familiar
And I see you doing what I try to do for me
With the words from a poet and the voice from a choir
And a melody
Nothing else mattered
Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she's singing
Ooh, baby ooh, said ooh
Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she's singing
Ooh, baby ooh, said ooh
The clouds never expect it, when it rains
But the sea changes colours
But the sea does not change
And so with the slow, graceful flow of age
I went forth with an age old desire to please
On the edge of seventeen
Oooooh...
Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she's singing
Ooh, baby ooh, said ooh
Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she's singing
Ooh, baby ooh, said ooh
Well then suddenly
There was no one left standing
In the hall, yeah yeah
In a flood of tears
That no one really ever heard fall at all
Oh I went searchin' for an answer
Up the stairs and down the hall
Not to find an answer, just to hear the call
Of a nightbird singing "come away" (come away, come away)
Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she's singing
Ooh, baby ooh, said ooh
Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she's singing
Ooh, baby ooh, said ooh
Well I hear you in the morning
And I hear you at nightfall
Sometimes to be near you
Is to be unable, to hear you
My love
I'm a few years older than you
(I'm a few years older than you)
My love
Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she's singing
Ooh, baby ooh, said ooh
{Repeat until the end}