What Is This Thing Called Love
Frank Sinatra Lyrics


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What is this thing called love?
This funny thing called love?
Just who can solve its mystery?
Why should it make a fool of me?
I saw you there one wonderful day
But you took my heart and threw my heart away
That's why I ask the Lord up in Heaven above
Just what is this thing called love?
Overall Meaning

The lyrics of Frank Sinatra's song What Is This Thing Called Love? reflect the singer's confusion and bewilderment about love. The opening lines are a rhetorical question as to the nature of love and its inexplicable hold on human beings. The use of the word "funny" suggests that the singer finds love puzzling or even absurd. The next line "Just who can solve this mystery" implies that even the most intelligent and knowledgeable people cannot resolve the enigma of love.


The next two lines suggest that love can make people feel foolish or vulnerable. The singer wonders why love should have this effect on them. The line "So you're there when you want to possess" hints at the notion that love can be possessive and manipulative. The following lines reveal the singer's painful experience of love with the woman he loved. She took his heart, and he was left with nothing but tears and hurt. The final line reiterates the question about the essence of love, implying that even after the singer's ordeal, he is still no closer to understanding the nature of love.


Line by Line Meaning

What is this thing called love
I am perplexed by the concept of love


This funny thing called love?
Love is a peculiar and unpredictable emotion


Just who can solve this mystery.
No one can fully comprehend the wonders of love


Why should it make a fool of me?
Love can cause one to exhibit foolish behavior


So you're there when
You are only present when


You want to possess.
You seek to own or control something or someone


She took my heart
She captured my affections


You threw it away
You disregarded my heart and feelings


I cried for love
I expressed my longing and desire for love


In the heaven above.
I prayed for love to come from a higher power


What is this thing called love?
I am still bewildered by the enigma that is love




Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group, Royalty Network, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Sentric Music, Downtown Music Publishing, Songtrust Ave, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: Cole Porter

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Me transporta a un mundo de ensueño lleno de misterio y romanticismo.

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Happy anniversary in heaven - 25 years today - miss you baby.

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It is a low E once and then as a grace note later.

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