Love Is Just A Four Letter Word

Seems like only yesterday
I left my mind behind
Down in the gypsy cafe
With a friend of a friend of mineShe 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 occurredThat love is just a fou letter wordOutside 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 sayMy 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 sayThat love is just a four letter wordI said goodbye unnoticed
Pushed forth into my own games
Drifting in and out of lifetimes
Unmentionable by nameSearching 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 thanThat love is just a four letter wordThough 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 understandAfter 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 assuredThat love is just a four letter wordStrange it is to be beside you
Many years and tables turned
You'd probably not believe me
If I told you all I've learnedAnd it is very, very weird indeed yo hear words like forever plead
Those 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 heardThat love is just a four letter word