Edge Of Seventeen 🎁

Lena rolled down the window. The humid air slapped her face. She stuck her arm out, palm flat, and let the resistance push her hand up and down. She was a wing. She was a fist.

You are seventeen, which means you are a raw nerve. Which means the world is a fist, and you are the glass. Stevie understood this. She wrote this song on a piano in a house full of ghosts, after a friend died, after a band died, while the white-winged dove outside the window kept singing the same flat note. Edge Of Seventeen

This is a fantastic request. "Edge of Seventeen" (the 1981 song by Stevie Nicks, famously covered by Lindsay Buckingham and Destiny’s Child) is a track defined by its raw, driving energy, a single-chord vamp, and a sense of frantic, grief-stricken power. Lena rolled down the window

"You want to go to the lake?" Marco yelled over the music. She was a wing

"You're quiet," he said.

The song on the radio was old, before either of them were born. A woman's voice, ragged and soaring, over a guitar that sounded like a drill or a prayer. Ooh, baby...