seems like only yesterday i left my mind behind down in the gypsy cafe with a friend of a friend of mine who 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 with she occurred that love is just a four letter word outside a rattling 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 forth into my own games drifting in and out of lifetimes unmentionable by name 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 can 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 it s 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 i told you all i ve learned and it is very very weird indeed to hear words like forever fleets of ships run through my mind i cannot cheat it s like looking in the teacher s face complete i can say nothing to you but repeat what i heard that love is just a four letter word
['american folk revival', 'folk', 'folk rock', 'singer-songwriter']