A Simple Thing As Love - John Hartford, Pete Seeger, Joni Mitchell

When you come across unto me with your hair

The tangled grass of evening breezes

And you do not hide your face because

Somebody said on time it wasn’t natural

What a joy for us just running down

This crooked trail of midnight

And the peaceful things inside me that it does

Then you whisper low «I have to go»

The acid tears start coming slow

To complicate a simple thing as love

Awake now I don’t hear the floorboards creaking

As you walk back from the window

Or feel your satin fingers drawing patterns

On my back where I lay dying

Without you I’m a child who sucks the vacant thumb

Of emptiness left crying

When he has not had enough

At the mercy of an empty room

Sing verses to some faded wall

Confused about a simple thing as love

It’s to bad we couldn’t stay here 'til the clock

Runs out and falls from sheer exhaustion

Or 'til morning as I watch you

As you stoop to pick your things up from the floor

But to soon for us it’s over

And the shock of the electric light bulb sunrise

From the ceiling up above

As it dangles to remind us

Of the spiderweb that binds us

And just complicates a simple thin as love

Awake now I don’t hear the floorboards creaking

As you walk back from the window

Or feel your satin fingers drawing patterns

On my back where I lay dying

Without you I’m a child who sucks the vacant fum

Of emptiness left crying

When he has not had enough

At the mercy of an empty room

Sing verses to some faded wall

Confused about a simple thing as love