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