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
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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, its destiny
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Falls on strangers, travels free
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Yes, I know now, traps are only 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 four-letter word
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Love Is Just A Four-Letter Word
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Bob Dylan |