Love Is A Four-letter Word Lyrics - Joan Baez

Artist: Joan Baez 

Song: Love Is Just A Four Letter Word 

Seems like only yesterday 

I left my mind behind 

Down in the Gypsy Cafe 

With a friend of a friend of mine 

She sat with a baby heavy on her knee 

Yet spoke of life most free from slavery 

With eyes that showed no trace of misery 

A phrase in connection first with she I heard 

That love is just a four-letter word 

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Outside a rambling store-front window 

Cats meowed to the break of day 

Me, I kept my mouth shut, too 

To you I had no words to say 

My experience was limited and underfed 

You were talking 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 said goodbye unnoticed 

Pushed towards things in my own games 

Drifting in and out 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 that love is just a four-letter word 

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Though I never knew just what you meant 

When you were speaking to your man 

I can only think in terms of me 

And now I understand 

After waking enough times to think I see 

The Holy Kiss that's supposed to last eternity 

Blow up in smoke, it's destiny 

Falls on strangers, travels free 

Yes, I know now, traps are only set by me 

And I do not really need to be 

Assured that love is just a four-letter word 

Strange it is to be beside you, many years the tables turned 

You'd probably not believe me if told you all I've learned 

And it is very very weird, indeed 

To hear words like "forever" plead 

So ships run through 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