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
Nothing else mattered here

He was no more than a baby then
Well, he seemed broken-hearted...
It was something within him
But the moment that I first laid
Eyes on him...all alone
Somewhere on the edge of seventeen

Just like the white-winged dove
Sings a song...sounds like she's singing
Ooo...ooo...ooo
Just like the white-winged dove
Sings a song...sounds like she's singing
Ooo...ooo...ooo

Well, I went today
Maybe I will go again tomorrow
Well, well, well, the music there
Well, it was hauntingly familiar
And 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 here

Just like the white-winged dove
Sings a song...sounds like she's singing
Ooo...ooo...ooo
Just like the white-winged dove
Sings a song...sounds like she's singing it to you
Ooo baby...ooo...said ooo

Well, the clouds never expect it
When it rains
But the sea changes color...
But the sea
Does not change
The sea, it does not change
It does not change, does it?
So with the slow graceful flow
Of age
I went forth with an age-old
Desire to please
On the edge of seventeen
Ooh....

Just like the white-winged dove
Sings a song...sounds like she's singing
Ooo...ooo...ooo
Just like the white-winged dove
Sings a song...sounds like she's singing
Ooo baby...ooo...said ooo

And then suddenly
There was no one left standing
In the hall
Well, well, in a flood of tears
That no one really ever heard fall at all but me
I went searching for an answer
Up the stairs...and down the hall
I did not find an answer
But I did hear the call
Of a nightbird...singing...
Come away...come now...come now

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 in the morning
Baby, I hear you at nightfall
Sometimes to be near you
Is to be unable to hear you
My love
I'm a few years older than you are
My love

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 it for you
Ooo baby...ooo...said ooo
I hear the call of a nightbird
I hear the call of a nightbird
I still hear the call of a nightbird
He says, "Come away, come away, come away, come away now"

She says, "Somewhere deep in the middle of the night, baby...
I think about you"
She says, "Somewhere deep in the middle of the night, my baby...
I think about you"

She says, "I know what it sounds like, I know what it sounds like...
I know what it sounds like...
It sounds like... you"
I know what it sounds like
I know what it sounds like
I know what it sounds like