What do I Know About Love?

What do I know about love?

Nothing

Where does the love go when it runs out?

When does it leave?

Why does it die?

Do you kill it in one violent blow?

Or is it a million unattended

Unhealed little cuts and scratches?

What do I know about love?

Everything

It creeps into my chest

Uninvited and untameable

I know love has no mercy on anyone

Rich, poor

Independent, codependent

Confident, insecure

It'll bring you to your knees if you did it right

What I know for sure about love is

That you never come out of it the same

The other person is a chemical and I am a chemical

And we both will come out as different people than when we met

I know when you're in love, kissing is everything

'Cause words aren't the only way to tell someone how you feel

I know when you fall in love you feel like you're the first

And only two people in the world

Every kiss, every touch, every caress is like something you feel

Nobody has ever felt before

And you think, has everybody that's fallen in love before just walked around this nonchalantly the whole time?

You're at a restaurant with your friends and you can feel it

The secret under your tongue

Burning like fire

But sweet

And it creeps up to your cheeks and makes you smile

And suddenly you look down and you see your heart's veins reaching

Reaching

Clinging to someone else's heart

I've learned a lot about love in my 20s, but

Not enough to maintain any control in the face of its power

And for every new thing I learned

There was something else I couldn't understand

All I know is love changes you

If you're lucky, to something better

What I know for sure is falling in love with life itself

Makes an artist out of everyone

I thought I was making art before

Writing songs was me making art but

Now I want my life to be the work of art

And my songwriting to be the camera

That I take a picture of it with

It's what I'm living

That's the art

What do I know about love?

Maybe nothing

And that's why it's everything