You Don't Know What Love Is - John Martyn/The Guy Barker International Quintet

Song Text

You Don't Know What Love Is Song Lyrics

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You don't know what love is

Til you’ve learned the meaning of the blues
Until you’ve loved a love you've had to lose
You don't know what love is

You don't know how lips hurt
Until you've kissed and had to pay the cost
Until you've flipped your heart and you have lost
You don't know what love is
Until you know the meaning of the Blues, till you
Do you know how a lost heart fears
The very thought of reminiscing
And how lips that taste of tears
Lose their taste for kissing

You don't know how hearts burn
For love that cannot live yet never dies
Until you've faced each dawn with sleepless eyes
You don't know what love is

You don't know how hearts burn
For love that cannot live yet never dies
Until you've faced each dawn with sleepless eyes
You don't know what love is

[Thanks to Davida Gayden for lyrics]