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Sonny Rollins - You Don't Know What Love Is (Official Audio)
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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins
Tenor Saxophone
Sonny Rollins Quartet
Sonny Rollins Quartet
Performer
Tommy Flanagan
Tommy Flanagan
Piano
Doug Watkins
Doug Watkins
Double Bass
Max Roach
Max Roach
Drums
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Gene de Paul
Gene de Paul
Composer
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Bobby Weinstock
Bobby Weinstock
Producer
Rudy Van Gelder
Rudy Van Gelder
Engineer

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 a lost heart fears
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
Written by: Don Raye, Gene de Paul

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