What is Love? (Baby Don’t Hurt Me)
A poem found in lovesongs — A Valentine’s Mashup
What is love?¹
Love hurts Love scars Love wounds and marks²
Why does your love hurt so much?³
Baby don’t hurt me
When it hurts so bad (when it hurts so bad) Why’s it feel so good? (when it hurts so bad)⁴
Hurt so good Come on baby make it hurt so good Sometimes love don’t feel like it should You make it, hurt so good⁵
Do you really want to hurt me? Do you really want to make me cry?⁶ Why does your love hurt so much? Why?
Love me tender, love me sweet⁷
Don’t hurt me No more
What is love?
Love Love is strange Lot of people Take it for a game⁸
Love is a losing game Played out by the band Love is a losing hand⁹
What is love?
Love is all From what I’ve heard But my heart’s learned to kill¹⁰
The first cut is the deepest Baby, I know The first cut is the deepest¹¹
And everybody hurts Sometimes¹² Love is war¹³ Love is a battlefield¹⁴
Why can I not conquer love? Wanted to fight this war without weapons¹⁵
The first cut is the deepest Try to love again
What is love?
Is this love, is this love, is this love Is this love that I’m feelin’? I want to know, want to know Want to know now¹⁶
I want to know what love is I want you to show me¹⁷
Show me slowly What I only know the limits of Dance me to the end of love¹⁸
Oh, I wanna dance with somebody I wanna feel the heat with somebody Yeah, I wanna dance with somebody With somebody who loves me¹⁹
Oh, Lord Ooh somebody, ooh somebody Can anybody find me somebody to love?²⁰
Baby don’t hurt me
Hold me close and tell me how you feel Tell me love is real²¹
Love is real Real is love Love is feeling, feeling love²²
What is love?
Love is a many-splendored thing It’s the April rose That only grows in the early Spring Love is nature’s way Of giving a reason to be living²³
Love is in the air, in the rising of the sun Love is in the air, when the day is nearly done²⁴
All you need is love All you need is love All you need is love, love Love is all you need²⁵
Love lift us up where we belong Far from the world below²⁶
Fly me to the moon Let me sing among those stars²⁷
I want to feel what love is I know you can show me
Is this love?
The power of love A force from above Cleaning my soul The power of love²⁸
Sometimes I am frightened But I’m ready to learn Of the power of love²⁹
I want to know what love is I want you to show me
And if you want I’ll try to love again Baby I’ll try to love again
What is love? Baby don’t hurt me
Playlist
[1] Haddaway, What Is Love? [2] Nazareth, Love Hurts [3] Carly Simon, Why [4] Ms. Lauryn Hill, When it Hurts so Bad [5] John Mellencamp, Hurts so Good [6] Culture Club, Do You Really Want to Hurt Me? [7] Elvis Presley, Love Me Tender [8] Buddy Holly, Love Is Strange [9] Amy Winehouse, Love Is a Losing Game [10] The Tallest Man on Earth, Love Is All [11] P.P. Arnold, The First Cut Is the Deepest [12] R.E.M, Everybody Hurts [13] Juvy, Love Is War [14] Haddaway, Love Is a Battlefield [15] Sia, Elastic Heart (Piano Version) [16] Bob Marley & The Wailers, Is This Love? [17] Foreigner, I Want to Know What Love Is [18] Leonard Cohen, Dance Me to the End of Love [19] Whitney Houston, I Wanna Dance with Somebody [20] Queen, Somebody to Love [21] Buddy Holly, Words of Love [22] John Lennon, Love [23] Andy Williams, Love Is a Many-Spendored Thing [24] John Paul Young, Love Is in the Air [25] The Beatles, All You Need Is Love [26] Buffy Sainte-Marie, Up Where We Belong [27] Frank Sinatra, Fly Me to the Moon [28] Frankie Goes to Hollywood, The Power of Love [29] Céline Dion, The Power of Love
