To my mistakes to my mistakes of cowardice
She shimmy shakes the Jimmy Jakes of consequence
Born of the airs and dues my airs of madness do declare
That it's o.k. it's love
It's what you wanted to see it's who you wanted to be
For what you needed to need she'll make it up
Love it's who you know
Machine gun blues her vacant rush is so steel
I'm unaware lost inside your visions
I got mine too over, I got mine and I got you
'Cause I know you, you're love
It's what you wanted to see, it's who you wanted to be
For what you needed to need, she'll make it up
Love, it's who you know
Can I look up to you as you look down on me
Can I feel in to you as you felt in to me
I can't help what you see, I can't help but to be
For what I needed to need, she'll make it
Love, it's who you know



Lyrics submitted by Ice

Track duration: 03:32

"Love" as written by Mark Matthews, Jonathan Francis Spong, Darren Barnard Hunter, Andrew Robert Lovell, Peter James Holdforth, John David Locko, Raymond Daniel Wilson

Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., EMI Music Publishing, Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.

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    General Comment:These lyrics are incomplete...
    Flag MusicNeedsPoetryon May 23, 2010   Link
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    My Interpretation:I was thinking that it might have something to do with loving someone, but not for the right reasons. Possibly he has a crush on someone who doesn't know it? Because he says
    "it's what you wanted to see, it's who you wanted to be
    for what you needed to need, she'll make it up
    love, it's who you know"
    I was thinking he might mean that love gives you the illusions that someone else has everything you need or want, that she'll make up that idea in your head even if it's not reality. They become what you want to see, who you want to be, and what you need to need. Love just makes it up. "It's who you know" could mean that love just finds somebody you know in your life to manifest itself into, making them seem like the perfect person that fills your void.
    Flag csm1991on April 07, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:my ex says this song reminds him of us at the moment, we still sleep together, I think we still feel love for each other but our relationship has deteriorated. Basically the sex is what makes the whole sorry situation bearable. So yeah, I think its about a sexual relationship to ease the pain of a lack of a emotional one
    Flag ticklemeellenon August 19, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:There is a point ina relationship....
    Whene you realize love is not the perfect insitution you believe it to be..
    You put down the book of fairytales...
    And say screw it...
    Sometimes lust...infatuation...is enough.
    Most people are not really in love..
    But in love with the idea of being in love.
    Flag Whitespideron February 14, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:I think its a mix of feeling resentment towards the feeling of love because his possibly been hurt before in the past. & No not necesarrily by Courtney Love! =p. I think what people were saying before about references to prostitues may be right aswell.

    Overall I think its a mixture of both love and lust. More like love turned into lust, maybe because its easier for him to fall in lust then to really fall in love and risk being hurt again so he remains bitter I guess and indulging in lust while having a spitefull out look on love. Thats the feeling I get from the lyrics, but I remembered when I first heard the song it was also the feeling I got due to the general sound and the way he sung it, espiecally when he'd say "love" in particular.

    Thats my two cents =). I'd like to hear others opinions on mine aswell, because I'm not 100% convinced by my own intrepration if that makes sense =p.
    Flag Jenitalson February 04, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:...further more (I'm not too sure if I made this clear in my previous post), I also don't see it as about any particular relationship, but more as an ironic deconstruction of the conceptual ideal of love - indirectly referencing the actual reality of it.
    Flag The Distortedon May 13, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:I think this song runs a lot deeper than the lack of love. For my the song is about that people try to find people that can match them, you know, that you don't try to get someone outta your league. And that Billy or the character in the song, is stuck with someone that he isn't really attracted to but can't get any better. And in this song he's in denial but also trying to convince himself to love her. Because THAT would solve evrything.
    Flag JulesChannelon December 17, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:This song has to be sarcastic - just listen to the sneering tone that Corgan delivers pretty much throughout the song (the chorus in particular - "Love: it's who you know").
    Plus, the music is distorted: it's not natural - like the lyrical sentiment, it's warped and been perverted.
    Alot of Mellon Collie seems to be about expressing the contradictions of human thought (and emotions); although being able to acknowledge them, one is still subject to their whims.
    PS The final lyric is missing:
    "Love solves everything!!!!! - LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVVVVVVVEEEEEEEEE"
    Flag The Distortedon August 30, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:I think this song is awesome. It takes me right back to that good 90's vibe. Awesome dance/trance type song, it's really meaningful to me.
    Flag UNKNOWIT88on May 26, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:i love courtney, so that'd be cool if it was about her, although i really have no idea if it is, it would just be really cool if it was1


    but by far, this is one of my favorites of all!
    Flag prestonmon May 23, 2007   Link

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