Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song, sounds like she's singin'
Whoo-whoo-whoo
Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song, sounds like she's singin'
Whoo, baby, whoo, said, whoo

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 stop)
Nothin' else mattered

He was no more (He was no more) than a baby then
Well, he seemed broken-hearted
Somethin' 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 singin'
Whoo, baby, whoo, whoo
Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song, sounds like she's singin'
Said, whoo, baby, whoo, said, whoo

Well, I went today, maybe I will go again
Tomorrow, yeah, yeah
Well, the music there, well it was hauntingly familiar
When I see you doin' what I try to do for me
With their words of a poet and a voice from a choir
And a melody, nothin' else mattered

Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song, sounds like she's singin'
Whoo, baby, whoo, said whoo
Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song, sounds like she's singin'
Said, whoo, baby, whoo, said, whoo

The clouds never expect it when it rains
But the sea changes colors
But the sea does not change
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 singin'
Whoo, baby, whoo, said whoo
Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song, sounds like she's singin'
Whoo, baby, whoo, said, whoo

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
When 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 singin' come away
(Come away)
(Come away)

Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song, sounds like she's singin'
Whoo, baby, whoo, said whoo
Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song, sounds like she's singin'
Whoo, baby, whoo, said, whoo

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)
Sometime 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 singin'
Whoo, baby, whoo, said, whoo

Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song, sounds like she's singin'
Whoo, baby, whoo, said, whoo