You Don't Know What Love Is
Unlocking the Depths of Love's Pain: George Benson's Poignant Message
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You don't know what love is
You lack understanding of what love truly is
Until you've learned the meaning of the blues
Real comprehension comes when you've experienced the depth of sadness
Until you've loved a love you've had to lose
True understanding involves loving and then losing that love
You don't know what love is
Reiteration of the idea that one doesn't know love without experiencing its hardships
You don't know how lips hurt
You're unaware of the pain caused by kisses until you've paid the emotional price
Until you've kissed and had to pay the cost
Kissing has consequences, and you only realize the cost after experiencing it
Until you've flipped your heart and you have lost
When you've given your heart and suffered its loss, the true meaning of love becomes apparent
You don't know what love is
Restating the theme that true knowledge of love involves the experience of loss
Do you know how a lost heart feels
Questioning if the listener understands the pain of a broken heart
The thought of reminiscing
The difficulty of recalling past experiences, especially painful ones
And how lips that taste of tears
Describing the taste of tears on the lips, making kissing less appealing
Lose their taste for kissing
The diminished pleasure in kissing when it is associated with sadness
You don't know how hearts burn
Expressing the intense emotional pain of a burning heart
For love that can not live yet never dies
Describing a love that cannot thrive but also cannot completely fade away
Until you've faced each dawn with sleepless eyes
Experiencing each new day with a heavy heart, unable to find solace in sleep
You don't know what love is
Reiterating the central theme that true love remains elusive without experiencing its challenges
You don't know how hearts burn
Repeating the idea of a burning heart for a love that persists despite challenges
For love that can not live yet never dies
Highlighting the paradox of a love that cannot flourish yet refuses to fade away
Until you've faced each dawn with sleepless eyes
Continuing the theme of facing each morning with a heart weighed down by love's difficulties
You don't know what love is, what love is
Final reiteration that without experiencing the trials of love, one cannot truly understand its essence
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