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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

Geecheeboy May 22, 2013 - 20:14	Sort of a Buck Owens vibe in that guitar riff that we hear from time to time. [ Reply ]
TerryS May 22, 2013 - 20:12	MiracleDrug wrote: she sings like a goat... You're kidding, right? Try Dust and Diamonds. it's another revenge song. [ Reply ]
westslope Apr 21, 2013 - 12:38	Lazarus wrote: This song is good for the ears... Absolutely. Sends me floating far above the earth. [ Reply ]
Lazarus Apr 21, 2013 - 12:34	This cover is good for the ears... [ Reply ]
KurtfromLaQuinta Feb 17, 2013 - 15:53	I like it for the memories... riding my Schwinn Sting Ray to the record store in old downtown Anaheim. Spending my saved lunch money on the 45. Still have my Schwinn and the 45. [ Reply ]
jadewahoo Feb 17, 2013 - 15:47	Her silken voice soothes the Soul. [ Reply ]
oldman Jan 17, 2013 - 08:16	I don't have the proper drugs for this any more. [ Reply ]
dragonlady Jan 17, 2013 - 08:16	Wow! [ Reply ]
old_shep Nov 15, 2012 - 14:31	These wonderful old songs just prove the political adage that no matter what good you have done in life, if you live long enough you will become a non-person, a target for the slings and arrows of an ignorant and petty public. [ Reply ]
markander33 Nov 15, 2012 - 14:23	d-don wrote: I fully disagree, but by God, that is one funny comment Agreed. I like this song, but what a funny comment, well done! [ Reply ]
Kaisersosay Nov 15, 2012 - 14:23	Make Joan Laugh [ Reply ]
d-don Nov 15, 2012 - 14:23	johnjconn wrote: When your right, your right. Freeking horrible. Burn it Bill. (ps - shit is a four letter word too) I fully disagree, but by God, that is one funny comment [ Reply ]
johnjconn Nov 15, 2012 - 14:22	hubcapsally wrote: NASTY Your much to nice. This song is a four letter word yukk [ Reply ]
kurtster Oct 15, 2012 - 06:00	MiracleDrug wrote: she sings like a goat... [ Reply ]
Shesdifferent Sep 13, 2012 - 16:43	Better than half the folksy stuff played on RP...shit I cannot remember the specific singers but I'll get back to you! [ Reply ]
Mari Sep 13, 2012 - 16:42	[ Reply ]
C57BL6 Sep 13, 2012 - 16:42	Now try to tell us how you really feel! tutakea wrote: joan baez shouldn´t be singing, anyway. dylan or not. i appreciate her polital commitment very much, but speaking in musically terms almost everything she did is poor. even her best efforts are weakened by the fact that she has one of the flattest voices of any female singer ever, without any possibility of transporting any emotion whatsoever. and examples like this dylan-version here are simply unbearable, and should be reason enough for going to court against her for serious injury [ Reply ]
tutakea Aug 13, 2012 - 05:28	joan baez shouldn´t be singing, anyway. dylan or not. i appreciate her polital commitment very much, but speaking in musically terms almost everything she did is poor. even her best efforts are weakened by the fact that she has one of the flattest voices of any female singer ever, without any possibility of transporting any emotion whatsoever. and examples like this dylan-version here are simply unbearable, and should be reason enough for going to court against her for serious injury [ Reply ]
MiracleDrug Aug 13, 2012 - 05:19	NeilBlanchard wrote: I could do without the dueling twangy instruments — one or the other would be fine. Joan Baez is great. Neil great at singing like a goat... [ Reply ]
NeilBlanchard Jul 12, 2012 - 18:55	I could do without the dueling twangy instruments — one or the other would be fine. Joan Baez is great. Neil [ Reply ]