Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word-Joan Baez

[ti:Love Is Just A Four Letter Wor] [ar:Joan Baez] [al:The First Ten Years] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word - Joan Baez (琼·贝兹) [00:06.18]Seems like only yesterday [00:08.99]I left my mind behind [00:12.11]Down in the Gypsy Cafe [00:14.54]With a friend of a friend of mine [00:17.41]She sat with a baby heavy on her knee [00:23.09]Yet spoke of life most free from slavery [00:28.91]With eyes that showed no trace of misery [00:34.84]A phrase in connection first with she I heard [00:43.65]That love is just a four-letter word [00:48.71] [00:52.07]Outside a rambling store-front window [00:55.47]Cats meowed to the break of day [00:58.77]Me I kept my mouth shut [01:01.14]To you I had no words to say [01:04.20]My experience was limited and underfed [01:10.56]You were talking while I hid [01:15.86]To the one who was the father of your kid [01:21.85]You probably didn't think I did but I heard [01:30.09]You say that love is just a four-letter word [01:36.76] [01:39.94]I said goodbye unnoticed [01:42.52]Pushed towards things in my own games [01:45.89]Drifting in and out of lifetimes [01:48.84]Unmentionable by name [01:52.02]Searching for my double looking for [01:57.81]Complete evaporation to the core [02:03.39]Though I tried and failed at finding any door [02:09.38]I must have thought that there was nothing more [02:14.31]Absurd than that love is just a four-letter word [02:24.80] [02:27.29]Though I never knew just what you meant [02:30.62]When you were speaking to your man [02:33.23]I can only think in terms of me [02:36.36]And now I understand [02:39.11]After waking enough times to think I see [02:44.61]The Holy Kiss that's supposed to last eternity [02:51.04]Blow up in smoke its destiny [02:56.84]Falls on strangers travels free [03:02.52]Yes I know now traps are only set by me [03:08.34]And I do not really need to be [03:13.58]Assured that love is just a four-letter word [03:23.63] [03:26.06]Strange it is to be beside you many years the tables turned [03:32.45]You'd probably not believe me if told you all I've learned [03:38.50]And it is very very weird indeed [03:44.18]To hear words like ＂forever＂ plead [03:50.10]So ships run through my mind I cannot cheat [03:56.03]It's like looking in a teacher's face complete [04:02.04]I can say nothing to you but repeat what I heard [04:10.89]That love is just a four-letter word