Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word

Song Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word
Artist Joan Baez
Album Carry It On

Lyrics

[00:00.00] Love is just a four-letter word
[00:02.00] for all fans of Joan Baez
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[00:06.76] Seems like only yesterday
[00:09.45] I left my mind behind
[00:12.57] Down in the Gypsy Cafe
[00:15.11] With a friend of a friend of mine
[00:18.30] She sat with a baby heavy on her knee
[00:23.78] Yet spoke of life most free from slavery
[00:29.80] With eyes that showed no trace of misery
[00:35.52] A phrase in connection first with she occurred
[00:44.30] That love is just a four-letter word
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[00:52.64] Outside a rattling store-front window
[00:55.99] Cats meowed to the break of day
[00:59.46] Me, I kept my mouth shut
[01:02.05] To you I had no words to say
[01:04.99] My experience was limited and underfed
[01:11.25] You were talking while I hid
[01:16.66] To the one who was the father of your kid
[01:22.56] You probably didn't think I did, but I heard
[01:27.34] You say that love is just a four-letter word
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[01:40.50] I said goodbye unnoticed
[01:43.31] Pushed towards things in my own games
[01:46.51] Drifting in and out of lifetimes
[01:49.33] Unmentionable by name
[01:52.68] Searching for my double, looking for
[01:58.27] Complete evaporation to the core
[02:04.17] Though I tried and failed at finding any door
[02:10.33] I must have thought that there was nothing more
[02:15.08] Absurd than that love is just a four-letter word
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[02:28.00] Though I never knew just what you meant
[02:31.21] When you were speaking to your man
[02:34.03] I can only think in terms of me
[02:36.73] And now I understand
[02:39.89] After waking enough times to think I see
[02:45.48] The Holy Kiss that's supposed to last eternity
[02:51.66] Blow up in smoke, its destiny
[02:57.69] Falls on strangers, travels free
[03:03.27] Yes, I know now, traps are only set by me
[03:09.18] And I do not really need to be
[03:14.36] Assured that love is just a four-letter word
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[03:26.83] Strange it is to be beside you
[03:29.39] Many years and tables turned
[03:33.23] You'd probably not believe me
[03:35.82] If I told you all I've learned
[03:39.22] And it is very, very weird indeed
[03:44.91] to hear words like forever plead
[03:50.84] Those ships run through my mind, I cannot cheat
[03:56.82] It's like looking in the teacher's face complete
[04:02.76] I can say nothing to you but repeat what I heard
[04:11.53] that love is just a four-letter word
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