This wonderful jazz/blues song, written by Gene de Paul and Don Raye, was covered by singers such as Billie Holiday and Chet Baker. It features Justin Ray (trumpet) as well as Taylor Pierson (piano), Zack Page (bass), Justin Watt (drums), and James Hammel (vocal and guitar). From the album, Stuck On You,
Lyrics
You Don't Know What Love Is
De Paul/Raye
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 what love is.
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 lost heart fears?
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 cannot live, yet never dies.
Until you've faced each dawn with sleepless eyes
You don't know what love is.
Solo
Do you know how a lost heart fears
The thought of reminiscing?
And how lips 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.
You don't know what love is.