[ti:Love is just a four-letter word]
[ar:Joan Baez]
[al:Le Meilleur de Joan Baez]
[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
[00:49.74]
[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
[02:25.62]
[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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