Love Means

Check it, I was thinking bout you

But I chose to write to God instead, met on the page and broke bread

Sometimes my heart it is leaden, memories I thought I let forget

Overestimated power of regret I guess

I planted seeds and watered in the darkness

I let a tree blossom in the bottom recesses

And yet I often wonder how I got into this mess

Instead of one love it's two lives conflict

Interested parties catch eyes catch lie fast

Pick your poison like a blood anointing over sins past

It can happen when yesterday collides with the present

Like scratch that I'm not past that, I'm confessing

I can pass that class, I'd rather not if you're the lesson

I would take that punishment, risk losing my blessing

Going crazy over something maybe not be in the essence

What it seems to me, it seems to me Polyamory beckons

And I get it, I get why you could love her and me

Love never claimed exclusivity it is free

And neither clarity, I wrote this for God to see

But he knew I was gonna do what I did before me

And I don't regret a thing, perfect symmetry

Felt like the way the king intended us to be

So there's no apologies, no rewinding

I would do it all again to show 'em what love means

{Love means}

Some things we're too in to figure out

{Love means}

I'm just trynna be fine without knowing it all

{Love means}

This puzzle with pieces of

{Love means}

Like a glimpse of that right place we fit in

I told me that I

Like to write when it's late and I'm sleep deprived

That's when I'm more inclined to joke and just speak my mind

As far as what love means well I can read a line

From the dictionary, but I think I need to redefine

I need to live it to know it

That means I gotta give it and let it be given back to grow it

I gotta sow it to get it, like really get it, I gotta show it

Not just talk about it like a lot of poets

A.K.A. moi, you see my day job's

Talking this romantic philosophic, je ne sais quoi

And as a lyricist, in my experience

Love's kind of bugged cause my fears and embarrassments

This music's who I always had to share it with

It's like a man that's in love with his therapist

And the affair is a lie but I'm scared

Cause to truly care and be cared for bares a risk

I wake up and I ask God for help

Then go online if my last song was felt

I forget about the pain, I'm gassed on myself

And the goblins in the closet go back on the shelf

Tryna figure what love means

Understanding, being fully understood, wonderful, pain, keeping no record of wrong, lies, purity, having no fear, all you need, my satisfaction is meeting your needs, loyalty, true freedom, mine, trust, yours, ours, satisfaction, true freedom, praying for your enemies, a safe space to make mistakes

Love means, check it out yeah

Love always has hope for another day

Love is grace, love is patient, even when it doesn't wanna stay

It doesn't run away, like "andale", it perseveres and suffers pain

And doesn't suffocate though it holds tight, and it doesn't change

Though some would say that love is vain

And it's just a game for the young ones on lovers lane

Or just the chemistry of the brain

Just science, you know something sane

But you know that love is strange and wild and heartbreaking and unexplained

Love is dangerous as a dark street, tuck your chain

Our world's going up in flames

Still love isn't violent, that said it's nothing safe

Cuz it means standing up to hate

So love is costly but love can save and I'm of the faith

But "love your neighbor" isn't a Christian or Muslim phrase

No one owns it as some brothers claim

From the pulpit or from the stage and in the coming age

I hope we'll see it as gay, straight and colorless

Sometimes we all feel motherless above the grave

But it's in death and new life when love is made

It's when you're unashamed and finally unafraid

When you confront the pain

Face death and you'll see in the end only love remains