Just like the wide-winged dove Sings a song that sounds like she's singing Ooh, ooh, ooh Just like the wide-winged dove Sings a song that sounds like she's singing Ooh, baby, ooh, say ooh And the days go by like a strand In the wind, in the wind Daddy's home, I begin again Said to my friend, baby Nothing else mattered 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 wide-winged dove Sings a song that sounds like she's singing Ooh, baby, ooh, say ooh Just like the wide-winged dove Sings a song that sounds like she's singing Ooh, baby, ooh, say ooh Well, I went today Maybe I will go again tomorrow Yeah, yeah, well, the music there Well, it was hauntingly familiar Well, I see you do it What I try to do for me Well, there's words on me, poet on me Words on me, fire on me Melody Nothing else mattered Just like the wide-winged dove Sings a song that sounds like she's singing Ooh, baby, ooh, say ooh Just like the wide-winged dove Sings a song that sounds like she's singing Ooh, baby, ooh, say ooh The clouds never expected When it rains But the sea changes, darling But the sea does not change Still, always a slow, graceful flow Of age I went forth With an age-old desire To breathe on the edge of serenity Just like the wide-winged dove Sings a song that sounds like she's singing Ooh, baby, ooh, say ooh Just like the wide-winged dove Sings a song that sounds like she's singing Ooh, baby, ooh, say ooh Well, in the family There was no one less standing in the hall Yeah, yeah, we lived out of T.N.S. No one really ever heard the phone at all Well, I've been searching for an answer But I'm still looking hard Not to find an answer Just to hear the call of a nightingale Singing, come away, come away, come away Just like the wide-winged dove Sings a song that sounds like she's singing Ooh, baby, ooh, say ooh Just like the wide-winged dove Sings a song that sounds like she's singing Ooh, baby, ooh, say ooh Well, I hear you in the morning And I hear you at nightfall Sometimes to be near you Is to be unable to feel you My love, I'm a few years older than you I'm a few years older than you Just like the wide-winged dove Sings a song that sounds like she's singing Ooh, baby, ooh, say ooh Just like the wide-winged dove Sings a song that sounds like she's singing Ooh, baby, ooh, say ooh