Seems like only yesterday
With a friend of a friend of mine
Who sat with 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
That love is just a four-letter word
Outside a rambling store-front window
Cats meowed to the break of day
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
is just a four-letter word
Pushed forth into my own games
Drifting in and out of lifetimes
Searching for my double, looking for
Complete evaporation to the core
Though I tried and failed at finding any door
there was nothing more ab surd
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
After waking enough times to think I see
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
That love is just a four-letter word
Strange it is to be beside you
Many years the tables turned
You'd probably not believe me
If I told you all I've learned
And it is very, very weird indeed
To hear words like forever, fleets
Of 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
That love is just a four-letter word
