Baez Joan Love Song To A Stranger (3:55) (joan Baez) Lyrics

Love Song To A Stranger (3:55) (joan Baez) Lyrics

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 longed 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 laid 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.

 

 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.

 

 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.

 And if love means forever,

   expecting nothing returned,

 Then I hope I'll be given

   another whole lifetime to learn.

 

 'cause I took from you

   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 longed to be -