[Verse 1]
I say, here stand I
I can't do otherwise
But is it enough?
And why'd you look so tough?
Back at Patrick Park
We stood in the dark
In my beer-stained mind
I said "please won't you be mine?"

[Chorus]
There's something dark hangin' over my head
I'm seventeen, don't hold your breath
There's something dark hangin' over my head
I'm seventeen, don't hold your breath

[Verse 2]
On the high school lot
You'd kiss me so long
But lessons don't last
When I'm playing you so fast

[Chorus]
There's something dark hangin' over my head
I'm seventeen, don't hold your breath
There's something dark hangin' over my head
I'm seventeen, don't hold your breath
[Verse 3]
Punch and first collapse
Drunk at winter dance
Looks in red dress
Oh, what an awful mess

[Chorus]
There's something dark hangin' over my head
I'm seventeen, don't hold your breath
There's something dark hangin' over my head
I'm seventeen, don't hold your breath