What is Love All About?

World Party

I only breathe when your mouth opens
I only dream when you're asleep
When I'm in this room, I don't see nothin'
'Cept whatever's runnin' through your mind

I only breathe when your mouth opens
I only dream when you're asleep
I only see this room when you are in it
And they're askin' do I know what love's about

I only sigh when I'm not with you
I can't remember why I am
I only speak when you are thinkin'
And they're askin' do I know what love's about

(What is love all about?)
(What is love all about?)
(What is love all about?)
Everyone should know
(What is love all about?)

Everyone should know
(What is love all about?)
Everyone should know, everyone should know
Everyone should know
(What is love all about?)

I only speak when you are breathin'
(What is love all about?)
I only dream when you're asleep
(What is love all about?)

I only see this room when you're in it
(What is love all about?)
Same for the sea and trees and lonely sky
(What is love all about?)

I only sigh when I'm not with you
(What is love all about?)
I can't remember why I am
(What is love all about?)

I only speak when you are thinkin'
(What is love all about?)
And they're askin' do I know what love's about
And they're askin' me if I know what love's about

Everyone should know
Everyone should know
Everyone should know
Everyone, yeah
(What is love all about?)
Everyone should know


Lyrics submitted by robbiesjam

What Is Love All About? Lyrics as written by Karl Edmond De Vere Wallinger

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    this just has to be put into real virtual life.....

    robbie says< there is a song i would dedicate to you babe, "what is love all about?"...so before you die...listen to this one okay jam? x

    jamie says< very beautiful words...

    robbie says< "i only breathe when your mouth opens"...what does that mean? sounds so goddam romantic!

    jamie says< You know what it means as you have felt it yourself...Life is worthless until you speak. Why breathe or live if you aren't there? If I can't hear your words then I am not alive. I only breath when your mouth opens because when you speak, I breathe, when I hear you, I live...

    robbie says< amazingly beautiful and appropriate and sentimental and heart wenchingly true.......

    i love you jamie....this is our mouths open....xxx

    robbiesjamon September 15, 2008   Link

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