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 coin and you have lost
You don't know what love is

Oh, do you know how lost I've been
At the thought of reminiscing?
And how lips that taste the tears
They lose the taste for kissing

And you don't know how hearts burn
For love that cannot live yet never dies
Until you've faced the dawn with sleepless eyes
You don't know what love is

Oh, do you know, do you know
How lost I've been, baby
At the thought of reminiscing?
And how lips that taste the tears
They lose the taste for kissing

You don't know how hearts burn
For love that cannot live yet never dies
Until you've faced the dawn with sleepless eyes
You, you don't know what love is

You don't know, you don't know, you don't
You really don't know, you really don't know
I don't know, you, you don't know
You don't know