Just like the white winged dove Sings a song, sounds like she's singing Ooh, ooh, ooh Just like the white winged dove Sings a song, sounds like she's singing Ooh, baby, ooh Said Ooh 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, 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 I said Ooh, baby, ooh Said Ooh Just like the white winged dove Sings a song, sounds like she's singing I said Ooh, baby, ooh Said Ooh Well, I went today Maybe I will go again tomorrow Yeah, yeah, yeah, 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 (Just like the white winged dove) Sings a song, sounds like she's singing I said Ooh, baby, ooh Said Ooh Just like the white winged dove Sings a song, sounds like she's singing I said Ooh, baby, ooh Said Ooh 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 Ooh, baby, ooh Said Ooh Just like the white winged dove Sings a song, sounds like she's singing Ooh, baby, ooh Said Ooh 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 And 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 Ooh, baby, ooh Said Ooh Just like the white winged dove Sings a song, sounds like she's singing Ooh, baby, ooh Said Ooh Well I hear you in the morning (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 (I'm a few years older than you) my love Just like the white winged dove Sings a song, sounds like she's singing Ooh, baby, ooh Said Ooh Just like the white winged dove Sings a song, sounds like she's singing Ooh, baby, ooh...