From the recording Stuck On You
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).
Lyrics
You Don't Know What Love Is
Gene de Paul/Don 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.
How could you 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 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 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.
You don’t know what love is.