I've Been in Love Before Lyrics

I’ve been in love before

I am no stranger to that sweet little rush

You feel when your hands accidentally touch

When you start out with somebody new

I’ve been in love before

Danced home from Sunday school giddy with joy

To scribble, “Dear diary, I just met a boy

And I don’t care what consequence it brings”

I’ve been in love before

Dragged by my mother to church to confess,

“Forgive me dear father my sins of the flesh”

But I did not repent anything

I’ve been in love before

Deeper than any heart could possibly fall

Some lover whose name I no longer recall

Whose face I cannot picture any more

Yes I’ve been in love, I’ve been in love before

I’m not a liar so I’m not going to say

I have not thought about you in that tender old way

But falling in love’s not so simple as when we were young

So if I don’t swoon like all those sweet seventeens

It doesn’t mean you can’t be the man of my dreams

See, I just don’t dream so much any more

Cos I’ve been in love, I’ve been in love before

I’ve been in love before

He promised to care for me, build me a home

He gave this illness to keep in my bones

And took off with everything else

I’ve been in love before

And love left me beat up and broke at the seams

So if I say, “It’s complicated”, well, you know what I mean

Don’t know what’s left here for you

Or what the hell else I can do

It’s just a feeling but you can never be sure

Cos I’ve been in love, I’ve been in love before