| 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 knee
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| Yet spoke of life most free from slavery
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| With eyes that showed no trace of misery
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| A phrase in connection first with she I heard
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| That love is just a four-letter word
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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 underfed
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| You were talking while I hid
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| To the one who was the father of your kid
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| You probably didn’t think I did, but I heard
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| You say that love is just a four-letter word
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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 for
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| Complete evaporation to the core
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| Though I tried and failed at finding any door
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| I must have thought that there was nothing more
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| Absurd than that love is just a four-letter word
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| Though I never knew just what you meant
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| When you were speaking to your man
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| I can only think in terms of me And now I understand
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| After waking enough times to think I see
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| The Holy Kiss that’s supposed to last eternity
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| Blow up in smoke, it’s destiny
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| Falls on strangers, travels free
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| 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
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| Strange it is to be beside you, many years the tables turned
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| You’d probably not believe me if 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"plead
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| So ships run through my mind I cannot cheat
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| It’s like looking in a teacher’s face complete
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| I can say nothing to you but repeat what I heard
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| That love is just a four-letter word |