"17"

artist: 椎名林檎 (Shiina Ringo)
album/single: 私と放電 (watashi to houden)
release: 2008.7.2

now I'm seventeen
my school is in the country
students wear trainers
read the same magazines
now I'm seventeen
my school is gettinng tiresome
teachers-they're so young
singling me out

* only like philosophy & after school the time
that's what I call my own time
nice girls meet nice boys end of school day
while other girls go strait home
talking 'bout soaps'n' that

I go home alone
like it watching the nameless people

** surfing subways, travelling somewhere "...nowhere..."

now i'm seventeen i do not have a title
depend on no one else
busy being king (to myself)

* repeat

*** i go home alone and have dinner
in my sweet home praying again,
again & again ("...peace...")

i see the same faces in school
& they say that i am different i think it's an honour
i say it's an honour to B different
i can't go their way

** repeat
*** repeat

now i'm seventeen
now i'm "...seventeen..."