Is That All There Is? Lyrics

Lyric discussion by coolwalking 

Cover art for Is That All There Is? lyrics by Peggy Lee

The verse about love got me. I'm not sure it's an intended meaning, but it's what it meant to me. I lost a friend who I loved very much. She stopped caring about me and disappeared. And that relationship is still the closest thing I've come to feeling like somebody really loved me. And yet: is that all there is to love?; that they just leave, like that? That it just ends, with a whimper? It's a very sad thought that the idea I have of love does not actually exist in the world, and the closest I can get is deludedly thinking that someone loves me, for a few years, until they get bored and disappear, and the meaning and reality of that love disappears in a puff of smoke.