You Don't Know What Love Is

Lyrics

You don't know what love is

Until 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 feels

The thought of reminiscing

And lips that taste of tears

Lose their taste for kissing

You don't know how hearts burn

For love that cannot live yet never dies

Until you've faced each dawn with sleepless eyes

You don't know what love is

Do you know how a lost heart feels

The thought of reminiscing

And lips that taste of tears

Lose their taste for kissing

You don't know how hearts burn

For love that cannot live yet never dies

Until you've faced each dawn with burning eyes

You don't know what love is

What love is

Credits

• Words by: Don Raye
  Music by: Gene de Paul
• Produced by: Shari Hutchinson
• Musicians:

Elvis Costello - vocal

Marian McPartland - piano

Gary Mazzaroppi - bass

Discography

Albums:

• Piano Jazz: Costello/McPartland, 2005

Singles:

• none

Collections:

• none

Soundtracks:

• none

Various Artists collections:

• none

Alternate Versions:

• none

Covers

Recorded by:

• Carol Bruce, 1941
• Ella Fitzgerald, 1942
• Miles Davis, 1954
• Chet Baker, 1955
• Dinah Washington, 1955
• Billie Holiday, 1958
• Marvin Gaye, 1961
• John Coltrane, 1962
• Tony Bennett & Bill Evans, 1976
• Cassandra Wilson, 1993

Bootlegs

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