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
Because 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, this
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 it's 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 it'self 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