Just like the white winged dove

Sings a song

Sounds like she's singing

Who who who

Just like the white winged dove

Sings a song

Sounds like she's singing

Oh baby oh said oh



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

Nothin' 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

Oh baby oh said oh

Just like the white winged dove

Sings a song 

Sounds like she's singing

Oh baby oh said oh



I went today maybe I will go again

Tomorrow

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

Oh baby oh said oh

Just like the white winged dove

Sings a song

Sounds like she's singing

Oh baby oh said oh



The clouds never expect it

When it rains

But the sea changes colors

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



Just like the white winged dove

Sings a song

Sounds like she's singing

Oh baby oh said oh

Just like the white winged dove

Sings a song

Sounds like she's singing

Oh baby oh said oh



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



Just like the white winged dove

Sings a song

Sounds like she's singing

Oh baby oh said oh

Just like the white winged dove

Sings a song

Sounds like she's singing

Oh baby oh said oh



Well I hear you in the morning

And I hear you

At nightfall

Sometime to be near you

Is to be unable to hear you

My love

I'm a few years older than you



Just like the white winged dove

Sings a song

Sounds like she's singing

Oh baby oh said oh