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[Joan]

Currently, there is a quote incorrectly attributed to Chet Baker. (“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.”)

Chet sang this song... however, the songwriters are Don Raye and Gene de Paul.

Here are the lyrics:

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

Do you know how lost heart feels
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 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 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

What love is"

Songwriters
DON RAYE, GENE DE PAUL

Published by
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Song lyrics are not generally allowed as quotes on Goodreads. Deleted.