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 -