“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.
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 reminiscing
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 sleepless eyes
You don't know what love is
You Don’t Know What Love Is was written by Don Raye & Gene DePaul.
You Don’t Know What Love Is was produced by Bob Weinstock & Rudy van Gelder.
Sonny Rollins released You Don’t Know What Love Is on Fri Jun 22 1956.