There's a number of ways to look at what I'm doing. The best one is that I'm having a vacation. And I have not really had a vacation in about ten years. So I decided to do it musically. Music Seems like only yesterday I left my mind behind Down the gypsy cafe with a friend of a friend of mine Who sat with baby heavy on her knee Spoke of life most free from slavery With eyes that showed no trace of misery A phrase in connection first with she Occurred That love is just a four letter word Outside a rattling storefront window Cats meowed to the break a dee dee dee dee dee I kept my mouth shut to you I had no words to say My experience was limited and underfed You were rapping while I hid To the one who was the father of your kid You probably didn't think I did I heard You say that love is just a four letter word I went on my way I know to slip forth into my own games In the night of lifetimes unmentionable by name Searching 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 That love is just a four letter word Strange it is to be beside you many years of 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 a teacher's face complete I can say nothing to you but repeat I heard That love is just a four letter word