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. () Do you know how a lost heart fears At the thought of rem - i - nis - cing, And how lips that taste of tears Lose their taste for kissing? You don't know how hearts burn For love that can - not live yet never dies. Until you've faced each dawn with sleep - less eyes, You don't know what love is.