What Love Is...

Mary J. Blige - What love is (Growing Pains, 2008)

Hmm.
Beautiful, horrible, magical, terrible.
Reason to laugh and smile.
Reason to cry yourself to sleep at night.
Start a fight. Make up, break up, wrong or right.
Heaven for all its worth can
equally be hell right here on earth.
(And no one really knows anything about it)
But everybody needs it.
We can't live without it.
(And that's the way it goes)
Darkest day, brightess night.
Just some of the things you might hear if you ask what love feels like.

And it feels like joy, and it feels like pain.
And it feels like sunshine, feels like rain.
An excuse for dying, reason to live.
And if you don't know, that's what love is.
Love is.
Gentle kiss, sweet caress.
Kiss the base of your neck.
argue until my head hurts, I can't remember what you said.
Out, screaming loud, don't know what were screaming bout.
So confusing yes its true, but if it wasn't there what would we do?

(And no one really knows anything about it)
But everybody needs it.
We can't live without it.
(And that's the way it goes)
Darkest day, brightess night.
Just some of the things you might hear if you ask what love feels like.

And it feels like joy, and it feels like pain.
And it feels like sunshine, feels like rain.
An excuse for dying, reason to live.
And if you don't know, that's what love is.
Love is.

That's love.
Anything that can bring you up or break you down.
That's love.
Leave the sun up in your sky or the darkest clowds.
That's love. And we need it.
That's love. And we need it.
That's love.
Oh ask anybody how it feels

And it feels like joy, and it feels like pain.
And it feels like sunshine, feels like rain.
An excuse for dying, reason to live.
And if you don't know, that's what love is.
Love is.

And it feels like joy (joy), and it feels like pain (pain).
And it feels like sunshine, feels like rain.
An excuse for dying (oh), reason to live (oh).
And if you don't know, that's what love is.
Love is. ohhhh. ohhhh. that is

σ.σ. Αυτό το τραγούδι "μίλησε" στη καρδιά μου, από την ώρα που το πρωτάκουσα μέσα από τον δίσκο της MJB "Growing Pains" (2008). Για μένα προσωπικά, τόσο η αισθαντική ερμηνεία αλλά και το τραγούδι το ίδιο, τα λένε όλα γύρω από το αναπάντητο ερώτημα που βασανίζει συχνά το μυαλό μας: "τι είναι η αγάπη"?

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Μαριαλένα, 26/8/2009