Love

Dónde buscar el amor
Dónde encontrarlo
Cómo medirlo

Estará en un bar
Atolondrado por la cerveza
En la pista de la discoteca
O en la esquina esperando el bus

Habrá salido a fumarse un porro
O se habrá ido a dormir temprano

Dónde se habrá escondido
Sin entender bien de qué se esconde
Estará solo o acompañado
Estará triste, tendrá calor

Será que se quedó en casa
En los abrazos de mamá
En las historias de los abuelos
En los bigotes de los gatos

Se habrá ido en ese avión
Que oí pasar sobre las nubes
O estará en las hojas del libro
Que me acompaña desde mi mochila

Dónde buscar el amor
Dónde encontrarlo
Cómo medirlo

Se habrá quedado en el pasado
O estará ansioso por venir

Love comes in many flavors
It's the bitterness of heartbreak
A sharp aftertaste on your tongue
Until a friend introduces you to a friend
Who becomes a lovely burst of flavor
That soothes burned tongues
It's swapping ice cream cups to try more than one thing
And splitting deserts at the end of a multi course dinner
And potlucks with mystery dishes
Sprinkled in with the familiar
Bowls of chips, salsa, and guacamole
Plates and dishes passed around with stories
Souls gathering with like minded souls
Mouths savoring the nuances of your name rolling off new tongues
An exchange of family recipes
Something to build upon
The old made new

Dónde buscar el amor
Dónde encontrarlo
Cómo medirlo

Searching for love in all the wrong places
Studious in the library, sunrise to sunset
Memorizing as many love languages as there are humans on this earth
On a quest to be a valedictorian of the heart

Friends often claimed I was like a hurricane
Constantly destroying my foundations for something new
Fighting to take a machete to roots that tried to ground me
I've had family poured cement around my feet
Duct taped my mouth shut with the sticky tact of reverse psychology
Tried to write labels in sharpie to define me
The acrid scent made my eyes burn

But I spent years fighting my way to the eye of the storm
Paper cut comments, Grow up and get serious
Listen to those who know better
Be happy with what you have

As if love being tested could lead to straight-As
Searching for love in all the wrong places
In slumber, wandering the desert sands dressed as a scuba diver
While awake, demanding 5 years prior experience and at least 3 solid references
Searching for love in all the wrong places
Between the numbers of the scale, beneath dollar signs on price tags
Alongside plates, with drinks, through the haze of smoke
Scheming of love like a move producer pitches the next hit
Sterilizing and stripping love of all meaning
As if love is a a carrot or a potato, whose bumps and blemishes can be
Smoothed and cleared away with a little peeling

Dónde buscar el amor
Dónde encontrarlo
Cómo medirlo

Where's the love, 愛はどこにあるの
Where to find it? 隠れているの
How to measure it? 気付けるの

Is it in a bar 酔いしれる
Giddy for the beer, 夜の中
Maybe dancing at the disco 踊りながら
Or in the streets waiting for the bus. バスを待ってるの

Is it out smoking a joint 一服して
Or did it go to bed early. 先に寝ちゃったのかしら

Where did it hide どこに隠れたの
Without really understanding what it's hiding from? 何から隠れてるの
Is it alone or accompanied? ひとりなの? 誰かと一緒なの
Is it sad, is it warm? 寂しい？暖かい

Where's the love, 愛はどこに
Where to find it? 隠れているの
How to measure it? きづけるの

Is it in the past もう過去のもの
Or is it eager to arrive? それともあたしを待ってるの

Love asks to be received
Sometimes it's fleeting
Sometimes like with first love, it buries itself deep
Hits heart strings and plucks at tear ducts
Changes the chemical structure of tears
Happiness, Sadness, Joy, Anger, Frustration, Grief
We like to wrap love up in flowers and chocolates
Because there's joy in the unwinding of delicate ribbons
It is found in making someone a freshly brewed mug of tea

Love becomes interwoven in the moments that stick
Love lingers even after the gifter's memory fades
Love is lost and found in the corners of small smiles
Crinkled eyes, swooping drops of roller coasters in stomachs
When your eyes meet for first time
Gut punches you're sure cause internal bleeding
When your eyes meet for the last time
And your happily ever after becomes
A coffee ring and tear stained chapter you both leave behind

Searching for love in every encounter
On every dating app
On the clock at every job
While sitting at every family gathering
All kinds of love, searching for all kinds of love
Searching for love in all the wrong places
Until this voice whispers
Estoy aqui estoy aqui
But there's only one place left to search
And so with eyes closed, I see where love has been hiding

Entire galaxies that were calling to me
To ascend
To crack open cement blocks and leave them behind
To recognize that I was never a hurricane
I was always a supernova
Powerful and luminous, a unique nuclear fusion
A cataclysm of moments completely and uniquely me
Evolving and expanding and burning to be something greater
Bright in the darkness
Loud in the silence of space

Small and fragile, disguised as something else
I see love, and know when love is ready
Love will come with me to the grocery store and the train and to the doctor's office

For now, I listen to the voice repeating like a heartbeat
Estoy aquí estoy aquí estoy aquí