Love Is Just A Four-letter Word Lyrics - Joan Baez

Seems like only yesterday 

I left my mind behind 

Down in the Gypsy Cafe 

With a friend of a friend of mine 

Who 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 occurred 

That love is just a four-letter word 

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Outside a rattling store-front window 

Cats meowed to the break of day 

Me, I kept my mouth shut, 

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 forth into 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