Shad, Eternia - Love Means lyrics

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 pass that class
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

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

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
AKA 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 embarrassments
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 gassed on myself
And the goblins in the closet
Go back on the shelf
Tryna figure what love means


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

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 Muslim 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 death and new
Life when love is made
It's when you're unashamed
And finally unafraid
When you confront the pain
Face death and you'll see in
The end only love remains