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Ladies and Gentleman, what is love?

And don't worry, this ain't some bullshit hypothetical

From someone about to brag lyrical

About everything love has meant to him



No, this is genuinely a curious question of a stranger to the concept

Someone who's been told a thousand tales

Of how love can cure ten thousand ails

But never the contents of the ointment



Sure you can call me an unemotional husk of a human being

And you may be right but that doesn't mean I'm less curious

of that which people angrily search for until they're furious

Savagely tearing at their own absurd misconceptions of the small word



Is love just lust by another name?

But coated and quilted to look presentable

Pretending to be something it doesn't represent at all

A dark desire lifted as something to which to aspire



Some claim to have found it easily,

Without smugness but full right to feel that way

For achieving easily what will take some to the end of days

Who're wondering nought but what all the fuss was about



Or is it by definition undefinable by mere words?

Love is what it is, there's no clear map or directions

Just a collection of rumours and vague descriptions

And the journey is what makes you worthy



Ladies and Gentlemen, what is love?

Quite frankly I've no idea

And while I'm willing to learn - I'm still unclear

So here's to somehow finding out what exactly love is about.

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