That love is just a four letter word Seems like only yesterday I left my mind behind Down in the gypsy cafe With a friend of a friend of mine She sat with a baby heavy on her knee Yet spoke of life most free from slavery With eyes that showed no trace of

All your eyes have ever seen All you've ever heard Is etched upon my memory I spoken through my words All that I take with me Is all you've left behind We're sharing one eternity Living in two minds Linked by an endless thread

I know that love is on my side Deep down I know Somehow I know So strange when lovers change their mind To realize the joy left foolishly behind And I feel secure down in my soul And somehow I know And I'm gonna win, girl Some nights I slip into the past

The spicks and the specks Where are the girls I left far behind Of the girls on my mind Where is the sun That shone on my head The sun in my life I could meet

I always wonder If we could've have been something Or is it all in my mind and Here I might have missed something That we left behind and And have you wondered could we be Something extraordinary Cause I always wonder Do you ever think of me

I'm safe here in my mind I'm free to speak with my own kind This is my life, this is my life I'll decide not you Yeah I've left the world behind Keep the world with all its sin He's had enough He couldn't take anymore He found a place in his mind

And I'm in a bluegrass state of mind And I miss that Kentucky girl that I left behind Hearts like the ones in my homeplace are so hard to find I'm in a bluegrass state of mind. I'm dreaming tonight of a hollow With a clear mountain stream A cabin with a

I'm running from the enemy inside Looking for the life I left behind These suffocating memories are etched upon my mind And I can't escape from the enemy inside Over and over again I relive the moment I'm bearing the burden within Open wounds hidden

The way we were Memories light the corners of my mind Misty water-colored memories of the way we were Scattered pictures of the smiles we left behind Smiles we gave to one another for the way we were Can it be that it was all so simple then Or has time

Faith in Manunkind I've become hostage to my mind Left myself behind Blind lead blind Quest to find Seized by the day Frozen captive by the night All the dark days of your life Oh, faith in Manunkind