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
Come away come away
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
La storia del pezzo
Il titolo nato da un accento
Il titolo di questa canzone è nato per sbaglio. Stevie Nicks stava parlando con Jane, la prima moglie di Tom Petty, che le raccontava di quando aveva conosciuto Tom «all'età di diciassette anni». Ma l'accento del sud di Jane fece sentire a Stevie qualcosa come «edge of seventeen», il bordo dei diciassette. Le piacque così tanto il suono di quella frase che promise a Jane che ci avrebbe scritto una canzone.
Il pezzo però prese un'altra strada. Nella stessa settimana di dicembre 1980 Nicks perse suo zio Jonathan, malato di cancro, e il mondo perse John Lennon, ucciso a New York. Il produttore Jimmy Iovine era amico stretto di Lennon, e Stevie si sentiva impotente davanti al suo dolore. Volò a Phoenix per stare accanto allo zio fino alla fine.
L'apertura del testo, quella colomba dalle ali bianche, viene da un menu di un ristorante di Phoenix che descriveva così l'uccello. Nicks ammise anni dopo di non aver mai sentito dal vivo il verso di una colomba prima di scrivere quella riga.
Scheda scritta con l'aiuto dell'intelligenza artificiale, usando solo fatti presi dalle fonti indicate.
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