What The Art of Loving is about
The title track sums up the album. Love isn't a perfect picture but "the cracks that let the light in", and the song is about two imperfect people learning to hold each other without breaking, and staying when it gets heavy.
The Art of Loving lyrics
You walked in like a quiet storm
No warning, no disguise
Carried scars like they were art
Hidden in your eyes
I tried to read between your lines
But you never spoke too loud
Just a masterpiece in fragments
Standing in a crowd
Every touch felt like a question
Every word, a subtle clue
I was learning how to hold you
Without breaking you
Love is not a perfect picture
It’s the colors running wild
It’s the cracks that let the light in
It’s the heart of a broken child
We don’t need to be unbroken
We don’t need to rise above
We’re just learning, slowly learning
The art of loving
We were dancing on a wire
Between the fear and truth
Every step a little braver
Every fall a little proof
That we don’t need all the answers
We don’t need to understand
We just need to keep on reaching
With an open hand
Every silence had a meaning
Every tear could turn to gold
If we let our walls fall slowly
If we let them go
Love is not a perfect picture
It’s the colors running wild
It’s the cracks that let the light in
It’s the heart of a broken child
We don’t need to be unbroken
We don’t need to rise above
We’re just learning, slowly learning
The art of loving
The art of loving
So don’t be afraid of the shadows
They’re part of who we are
Every bruise and every fracture
Makes us who we are
And I’ll stay when it gets heavy
I won’t run when it gets tough
We don’t need to get it perfect
We just need enough
Love is not a perfect picture
It’s the fire and the flood
It’s the hands that keep on reaching
Even when they’re covered in blood
We don’t need to be unbroken
We don’t need to rise above
We’re just learning, slowly learning
The art of loving
Yeah we’re learning
The art of loving