We Never Knew What Love Is

You and I, you and I, you and I think we know

What love is, love is, but we let go

Clueless, black dress, blood red rose

How could you take everything, even my clothes?

I tried so hard to understand what went wrong

Guess we didn’t know what we were in along

What we called “our song”, going headstrong

Realized only now this isn’t where we belong

But we’ve played our chips, our cards, our deals

We’ve made love, happiness head over heels

And for a moment I’m thinkin’, you know, this is real

But from the big picture this is how I really feel

We don’t know, we never really knew

What love is, how to make a dream come true

How to love from the heart right from the start

We can do it with another

But with each other

All we do is tear apart

What love is, we haven’t got a clue

We never really knew

All those times we spent in bed giggling

It was fun, I’ll admit, but we were just mingling

There was no real, in-depth intimacy

A bunch of hotness and something sexy

But what I really wanted and what you really wanted

What I really needed babe, and what you really needed

When at the end of the day the tears rolled

We realized we didn’t have anyone to hold

‘Cause you is you and I is me

But when we’ve gotta be “we” things get tricky

We don’t know how and we end of up feelin’ lonely

I never seem to miss you and you never miss me

We don’t know, we never really knew

What love is, how to make a dream come true

How to love from the heart right from the start

We can do it with another

But with each other

All we do is tear apart

What love is, we haven’t got a clue

We never really knew

I never really knew how to keep you happy

And you never really knew how to keep me laughing

Yeah, there were times when you drove me crazy

With delight, but the desire to leave followed quickly

‘Cause there’s only so much I can take in a love so fake

Like the leaves and the rake, I wanted to pile you away

Didn’t know what to say, you were always asking for money

You weren’t very sweet, but I still called you honey

(Wonder why)

Conversations never lasted long, this was never goin’ strong

Makes me wonder how we kept it on this long

Let’s not prolong

Oh, oh, oh, oh, this ain’t love, this is just wrong

We can’t keep pretendin’ what our bodies make

Is somethin’ that our hearts are indulged in

‘Cause I know, yeah I know, and you know somehow

We can’t be a part of something if we don’t know how

We don’t know, we never really knew

(Never really knew, baby)

What love is, how to make a dream come true

(Nah, ah)

How to love from the heart right from the start

We can do it with another

(With another lover)

But with each other

(With you)

All we do is tear apart

(Breakin’ this up)

What love is, we haven’t got a clue

(Not a clue, babe)

We never really knew

(We never really knew)

(Repeat x2)

We never really knew