17 Again – English Lyrics

• By: Eurythmics

Lyrics & Translation

Learning a language through music is a fantastic journey, and Eurythmics' '17 Again' offers a rich text to explore. The song's reflective and narrative lyrics provide a great opportunity to understand storytelling in English, with its poignant look at the past. The vocabulary used to describe emotions and experiences, coupled with the clever reference to their own musical history, makes this a special and insightful song for any language learner.

[English]

(gentle music)

♪ Yay, though we venture through ♪

♪ The valley of the stars ♪

♪ You and all your jewelry ♪

♪ And my bleeding heart ♪

♪ Who couldn't be together ♪

♪ And who could not be apart ♪

♪ We should've jumped out ♪

♪ Of that airplane after all ♪

♪ Flying sky ways overhead ♪

♪ It wasn't hard to fall ♪

♪ And I had so many crashes ♪

♪ That I couldn't feel at all ♪

♪ And it feels like I'm seventeen again ♪

♪ Feels like I'm seventeen ♪

♪ Times might break you, God forsake you ♪

♪ Leave you burned and bruised ♪

♪ Innocence will teach you ♪

♪ What it feels like to be used ♪

♪ Thought that you'd done everything ♪

♪ You didn't have a clue ♪

♪ Yeah, it feels like I'm seventeen again ♪

♪ Feels like I'm seventeen again ♪

♪ Looking from the outside in ♪

♪ Some things never change ♪

♪ Hey, hey, I'm a million miles away ♪

♪ Funny how it seems like yesterday ♪

♪ All those fake celebrities ♪

♪ And all those viscous queens ♪

♪ All the stupid papers ♪

♪ And the stupid magazines ♪

♪ Sweet dreams are made of anything ♪

♪ That gets you in the scene ♪

♪ And it feels like I'm seventeen again ♪

♪ Yeah, it feels like I'm seventeen again ♪

♪ Yes, it feels like I'm seventeen again ♪

♪ Seventeen, seventeen again ♪

♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪

♪ Sweet dreams are made of these ♪

♪ Who am I to disagree ♪

♪ I travel the world and the seven seas ♪

♪ Everybody's looking for something, yeah ♪