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“You Don’t Know What Love Is” is a popular song of the Great American Songbook, written by Don Raye (lyrics) and Gene de Paul (music) for the Abbott and Costello picture Keep ‘Em Flying (1941), in which it was sung by Carol Bruce.
After Miles Davis recorded an instrumental version of the song in 19...
[Verse 1]
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
[Verse 2]
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
[Bridge]
Do you know how lost it feels?
The thought of reminiscing
And how lips that taste of tears
Lose their taste for kissing
[Verse 3]
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
[Instrumental Break]
[Verse 3]
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
[Outro]
What love Is
You Don’t Know What Love Is was written by Gene DePaul & Don Raye.
You Don’t Know What Love Is was produced by Irving Townsend.