love song to a stranger - joan baez
How long since I've spent a whole night
in a twin bed with a stranger
His warm arms all around me?
How long since I've gazed into dark eyes
that melted my soul down
To a place where it longs to be?
All of your history has little to do with your face
You're mainly a mystery
with violins filling in space
You stood in the nude
by the mirror and picked out a rose
From the bouquet in our hotel
And lay down beside me again
and I watched the rose
On the pillow as it fell
I sank and I slept in a twilight with only one care
To know that when day broke
and I woke that you'd still be there
you'd still be there
The hours for once they passed slowly,
unendingly by Like a sweet breeze on a field
Your gentleness came down upon me
and I guess I thanked you
When you caused me to yield
We spoke not a sentence
and took not a footstep beyond
Our two days together
which seemingly soon would be gone
soon would be gone
Don't tell me of love everlasting
and other sad dreams
I don't want to hear
Just tell me of passionate strangers
who rescue each other
From a lifetime of cares
Because if love means forever,
expecting nothing returned
Then I hope I'll be given
another whole lifetime to learn
Because you gave to me oh
so many things it makes me wonder
How they could belong to me
And I gave you only my dark eyes
which melted your soul down
To a place where it longs to be