Joan Baez - Love Song To A Stranger

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

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