Jennifer

Jennifer
Written by Dennis DeYoung
Lead Vocals by Dennis DeYoung

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Jennifer
She drinks her sherry wine
She keeps her lady's love for me all the time
She's seventeen, barely old enough to cry
A child in her father's eyes
A woman every night

Her love,
gives me the power
Her dreams carry me on
Jennifer, so inviting
That I sing

Jennifer
She took me by surprise
She told me that she's much too young to keep me satisfied
Jennifer, ah so delicate and shy
A child in her mother's eyes but
A woman every night

Her love,
gives me the power
Her dreams carry me on
Jennifer, so inviting
That I sing...

Interpretation

Jennifer is a teenage girl of 17, not yet out of high school, although perhaps she dropped out and left home already. She's too young to legally drink, but like many teenagers, she's rebellious and does anyway. She is seeing an older man ("She told me that she's much too young to keep me satisfied") and sexually active ("a woman every night").