Joan Baez - Love Song For A Stranger 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 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 where 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
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 that melted your soul down
To a place where it longs to be