Artist: | Joan Baez (English) |
User: | RIta und Marco D'Ercole |
Duration: | 130 seconds |
Delay: | 12 seconds |
Chord names: | Not defined |
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Comment: | - |
LOVE IS JUST A FOUR-LETTER WORD
by Bob Dylan
Recorded by Joan Baez
[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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Seems like only yesterday
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I left my mind behind
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Down in the Gypsy Cafe
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With a friend of a friend of mine
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She sat with a baby heavy on her
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knee
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Yet spoke of life most free from
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slavery
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With eyes that showed no trace of
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misery
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A phrase in connection first
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with she
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I heard
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That love is just a four-letter
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word
[Verse 2]
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Outside a rambling store-front
window
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Cats meowed to the break of day
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Me, I kept my mouth shut, too
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To you I had no words to say
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My experience was limited and
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underfed
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You were talking while I hid
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To the one who was the father of
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your kid
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You probably didn't think I did,
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but I heard
You say that love is just a
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four-letter word
[Verse 3]
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I said goodbye unnoticed
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Pushed towards things in my own
games
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Drifting in and out of lifetimes
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Unmentionable by name
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Searching for my double, looking
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for
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Complete evaporation to the core
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Though I tried and failed at
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finding any door
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I must have thought that there
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was nothing more
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Absurd than that love is just a
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four-letter word
[Verse 4]
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Though I never knew just what you
meant
Em
When you were speaking to your
man
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I can only think in terms of me
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And now I understand
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After waking enough times to
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think I see
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The Holy Kiss that's supposed to
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last eternity
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Blow up in smoke, its destiny
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Falls on strangers, travels free
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Yes, I know now, traps are only
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set by me
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And I do not really need to be
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Assured that love is just a
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four-letter word
[Verse 5]
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Strange it is to be beside you
Em
Many years and tables turned
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You'd probably not believe me
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If I told you all I've learned
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And it is very, very weird indeed
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To hear words like forever please
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Those ships run through my mind,
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I cannot cheat
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It's like looking in the
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teacher's face complete
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I can say nothing to you but
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repeat what I heard
That love is just a four-letter
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wird