Sweeter For Me Lyrics - Joan Baez

(Words and Music by Joan Baez) 

Red telephone sitting by my bed 

Practically bore your name 

Lying alone in the twilight zone 

Waiting for your call to come in 

Hadn't been for the kid 

Who was sleeping upstairs 

You'd have found me well on my way 

On that midnight plane to L.A. 

You suffered sweeter for me 

Than anyone I've ever known 

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I dared to look into the years 

Would you still have your wife? 

I dared to peer through my tears 

Could we ever have a life? 

Even thought I was pregnant by you 

But I didn't care 

I just talked to my son 

Would he mind another one? 

You suffered sweeter for me 

Than anyone I've ever known 

Once more the mist rolls to the sea 

Like a hundred times we've known 

Trees are faded and the clouds have stopped 

Where the wind had blown 

How I dread when the evening comes 

And I cannot be 

What you want me to be 

When you are next to me 

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How silent you are as the veils come down 

Before my eyes 

Soft and reserved as you move away 

Donning your disguise 

While every folk song that I ever knew 

Once more comes true 

And loves grows old 

And waxes cold 

You suffered sweeter for me 

Than anyone I've ever known 

Just one favor of you, my love 

If I should die today 

Take me down to where the hills 

Meet the sea on a stormy day 

Ride a ridge on a snow white horse 

And throw my ashes away 

To the wind and the sand 

Where my song began 

You suffered sweeter for me 

Than anyone I've ever known 

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