You Don't Know What Love Is
Dinah Washington Lyrics

You don't know what love is
Love is a complex, emotional experience that cannot be understood until it is personally experienced.

Until you've learned the meaning of the blues
To truly understand love, one must also comprehend the melancholic lows associated with it.

Until you've loved the love you've had to lose
A part of loving someone is accepting the possibility of losing them, and learning to cherish the time spent together.

You don't know how lips hurt
The physical pain of love- the aches and the swelling- is indescribable until it is experienced firsthand.

Until you've kissed and had to pay the cost
The consequences that follow loving someone can be heavy to bear and is something one can only truly learn through experience.

Until you've flipped your heart and you have lost
Losing someone you love, who you thought would always be by your side, is one of the most painful experiences one can go through.

Do you know how a lost heart feels
The aftermath of losing love, of feeling lost and without direction, is something that needs to be felt before it can be fully comprehended.

The thought of reminiscing
Memories have the power to both comfort and hurt, and the thought of revisiting them is a complex mix of emotions.

And how lips that taste of tears, they lose their taste for kissing
Tears shed for lost love can change the way we perceive things, even something as simple as a kiss.

You don't know how hearts burn
The emotional pain of loving someone who you cannot be with is intense, like a fire deep within one's being that never seems to quell.

For love that cannot live yet never dies
Even though love may not be able to exist in the physical world, it remains eternal and forever alive in the heart.

Until you've faced each dawn with sleepless eyes
Loving someone without being able to be with them can lead to restless nights and exhaustion, a struggle that only the heartbroken fully understand.