Eternia - Love Means lyrics

[Verse 1: Eternia] 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, cats 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 pa** that cla**, 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 [Hook x2] {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 [Verse 2: Shad] 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 embarra**ments 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 ga**ed on myself And the goblins in the closet go back on the shelf Tryna figure what love means [Hook x2] [Bridge: various samples] 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 [Verse 3: Shad] 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 m**m 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 d**h and new life when love is made It's when you're unashamed and finally unafraid When you confront the pain Face d**h and you'll see in the end only love remains