Lyrics Nina Simone

Nina Simone

You Don't Know What Love Is

You don't know what love is

'Till you've learned the meaning of the blues

'Till you've loved a love you've had to lose

You don't know what love is

How could you know how lips hurt

'Till you've kissed and had to pay the cost

Baby, 'till you've flipped your heart and you have lost

You don't know what love is

Do you know how lost heart fears

The thought of reminiscing?

And how lips taste of tears

Oh, they lose their taste for kissing

You don't know how hearts burn

For love that cannot live, yet never dies

'Till you've faced each dawn with sleepless eyes

You don't know what love is

You don't know what love is

How could you know how lips hurt

'Till you've kissed and had to pay the cost

Baby, 'till you've flipped your heart and you have lost

You don't know what love is

Do you know how lost heart fears

The thought of reminiscing?

And how lips taste of tears

Oh, they lose their taste for kissing

You don't know how hearts burn

For love that cannot live, yet never dies

Baby, 'till you've faced each dawn with sleepless eyes

You don't know

No, you'll never know

What love is