Make It Up
The Blow Lyrics

I thought I knew what love was but
The singer believed they knew what love meant previously but they were wrong.

Turns out I'd never seen this stuff
The singer realizes they've never experienced true love before.

I though I knew what love was
Reinforcement of how the singer believed they understood love before this point.

But it couldn't ever shown us
Love can't be explained fully or taught, it has to be experienced to be understood.

In the heart of love
Refers to the feeling/emotion of love and how it manifests within a person.

You might just have to make it
Creating or forming love with someone might be necessary.

Make it make it up make it
Repeated from the chorus to emphasize that love needs to be formed and made.

I thought I knew what love was
Second instance reinforcing past assumptions about love.

Turns out I might have faked it more than most
The artist recognizes they might have deceived themself about their knowledge of love.

But here in your arms I never have to bluff
With the person they're with currently, the artist doesn't need to pretend like they understand love.

They say that atoms never die
Referring to the idea that everything is made up of atoms and they just change form over time.

They just exchange
Explaining that atoms transfer and shift around rather than disappear completely.

And what you see that makes up me
The things/people we are made of are constantly changing and evolving.

Will one day take some other shape
The elements that make up a person will one day merge with something/someone else in a different form.

And by this method we become
Describing how people evolve and change over time due to the exchange and transformation of elements within them.

To be something we don't approve of
We might not always approve of or like the changes we go through, but they are necessary for growth.

But right now what we are is
Present moment emphasis that the person/people are in a good place currently.

Just right
Everything is perfect and just as it should be.

We get to make it up
Emphasis on the importance of finding one's own path and creating/assembling one's own happiness.

I know rules of love were made for us to break them
Challenging the standard or societal ideas about love and creating one's own approach to the concept.

To break them
Reinforcement that boundaries and expectations around love need not limit one's experience of it.

When you see a chance to get what you deserve
The artist encourages taking risks and taking steps toward what one truly deserves (in love and life).

You take it
Acting on those opportunities and taking steps forward toward one's own happiness and fulfillment.