Love Takes Tears

You say you're lonely, just for me only

Sounds like true

But I can't recognize it, oh, you disguise it

So I need proof

And, baby, if you want love, yeah, you got to take pain

Oh, hear me, baby

'Cause even a flower needs rain to remain, my baby

Love takes tears and my fear is that

You haven't learned to cry

Love takes tears and my fear is that

You haven't learned to cry

I couldn't tell in springtime that girl to woman changed time

If I touched your soul

Oh, here we are at ring time, that promise everything time

Still I don't know

Well, don't waste your mind tryna understand it

Oh, baby, you'll only find that's the way nature planned it

Darling, love takes tears and my fear is that

You haven't learned to cry

Love takes tears, baby, and my fear is that

You haven't learned to cry

Oh, people might tell ya that cryin' makes you weak

But the words in their eyes would say if rain could only speak

Darling, love takes tears and my fear is that

You haven't learned to cry

Oh, love takes tears and my fear is that

You haven't learned to cry

Oh, my baby, love takes tears and my fear is that

You haven't learned to cry

No, no, baby, baby, love takes tears