Just like the white winged dove Sings a song Sounds like she's singing Whoo whoo whoo Just like the white winged dove Sings a song Sounds like she's singing Ooo baby ooo said ooo 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 Everything's alright Nothing else mattered He was no more 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 Ooo baby ooo said ooo Just like the white winged dove Sings a song Sounds like she's singing Said ooo baby ooo said ooo Well I went today maybe I will go again Tomorrow Yea yea well the music there well it was hauntingly Familiar Well I see you doing What I try to do for me With the words from a poet And a voice from a choir And a melody nothing else mattered Just like the white winged dove Sings a song Sounds like she's singing Ooo baby ooo said ooo Just like the white winged dove Sings a song Sounds like she's singing Ooo baby ooo said ooo The clouds never expect it When it rains But the sea changes color 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 Oooooooooaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh Just like the white winged dove Sings a song Sounds like she's singing Ooo baby ooo said ooo Just like the white winged dove Sings a song Sounds like she's singing Ooo baby ooo said ooo 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 Well I went searching 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 Ooo baby ooo said ooo Just like the white winged dove Sings a song Sounds like she's singing Ooo baby ooo said ooo Well I hear you Well I hear you in the morning in the morning And I hear you And I hear you At nightfall 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 Just like the white winged dove Sings a song Sounds like she's singing Ooo baby ooo said ooo Just like the white winged dove Sings a song Sounds like she's singing Ooo baby ooo said ooo