Joan Baez – Love Song To A Stranger (Guitar)

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How long since I've spent a whole night in a twin bed with a stranger

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His warm arms all around me?

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How long since I've gazed into dark eyes that melted my soul down

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To a place where it longs to be?

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All of your history has little to do with your face

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You're mainly a mystery with violins filling in space

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You stood in the nude by the mirror and picked out a rose,

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from the bouquet in our hotel

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And lay down beside me again and I watched the rose,

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on the pillow as it fell

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I sank and I slept in a twilight with only one care;

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to know that when day broke and I woke, that you'd still be there,

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you d still be there

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The hours for once they passed slowly, unendingly by

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Like a sweet breeze on a field

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Your gentleness came down upon me and I guess I thanked you,

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When you caused me to yield

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We spoke not a sentence and took not a footstep beyond

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Our two days together which seemingly soon would be gone,

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Soon would be gone

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Don't tell me of love everlasting and other sad dreams,

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I don't want to hear

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Just tell me of passionate strangers who rescue each other

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From a lifetime of cares

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Because if love means forever, expecting nothing returned

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Then I hope I'll be given another whole lifetime to learn,

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ummmmmmm

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Because you gave to me oh so many things it makes me wonder;

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how they could belong to me?

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And I gave you only my dark eyes that melted your soul down;

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to a place where it longs to be