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Love Is Just A Four Letter World
Joan Baez
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Seems like only yesterday I left my mind behind
Down in a gypsy cafe with a friend of a friend of mine
Who sat with baby heavy on her knee
Spoke of life most free from slavery
With eyes that showed no trace of misery
The phrase in connection first with she
Occurred that love is just a four-letter word
Outside a rattling storefront window
Cats meowed to the break of deedle-dee-dee-dee
Me, I kept my mouth shut to you, I had no words to say
My experience was limited and underfed
You were rapping while I hid
To the one who was the father of your kid
You probably didn't think I did
But I heard you say that love is just a four-letter word
I went on my way unnoticed, slipped forth into my own games
In the night of lifetimes unmentionable by name
Searching for my double, looking for
Complete evaporation to the core
Though I tried and failed at finding any door
I must have thought that there was nothing more
Absurd than love is just a four-letter word
Strange it is to be beside you many years of tables turned
You'd probably not believe me if I told you all I've learned
And it is very, very weird indeed
To hear words like "forever" fleets
Of ships run to my mind I cannot cheat
It's like looking in a teacher's face complete
I can say nothing to you but repeat
What I heard that love is just a four-letter word
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