Love is a four letter word (Dylan)
Seems like
only yesterday I left my mind behind Down in the Gypsy Café With a
friend of a friend of mine She 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 that she averred That love is just a four-letter
word
Outside a rambling 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 forward into my own games Drifting in and out of
lifetimes Unmentionable by name After 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
Though I never knew just what you meant
When you were speaking to your man I could 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, its 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
Strange it is to be beside you, many years the tables turned You'd probably
not believe me if told you all I've learned And it is very very weird, indeed
To hear words like "forever" plead though ships run through my mind I cannot
cheat it's like looking in a teacher's face complete I can say nothing to
you but repeat what I heard That love is just a four-letter word
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