Chorus:
Valentine's Day is Not About Giving
It’s a About Saint Valentine
You know what I’m saying
Yeah, You know what I’m saying
You say yeah and you say no
You know what I’m saying
Yeah, You know what I’m saying
Valentine's Day is Not About Giving
Co-Chorus:
You know that’s not about giving
It’s a About Saint Valentine
Valentine's Day is Not About Giving
You know that’s not about giving
It’s a About Saint Valentine
Valentine's Day is Not About Giving
You know that’s not about giving
It’s a About Saint Valentine
Valentine's Day is Not About Giving
Verse 1:
All that is reliably known of the saint
Commemorated on February 14
Is his name and that he was martyred
And buried at a cemetery on the Via Flaminia close to
The Ponte Milvio to the north of Rome on that day
It is uncertain whether St. Valentine is two different Saints Several different martyrologies have been added to later hagiographies that are unreliable
Chorus:
Valentine's Day is Not About Giving
It’s a About Saint Valentine
You know what I’m saying
Yeah, You know what I’m saying
You say yeah and you say no
You know what I’m saying
Yeah, You know what I’m saying
Valentine's Day is Not About Giving
Co-Chorus:
You know that’s not about giving
It’s a About Saint Valentine
Valentine's Day is Not About Giving
You know that’s not about giving
It’s a About Saint Valentine
Valentine's Day is Not About Giving
Verse 2:
Because so little is reliably known of him, in 1969
The Catholic Church removed his name from the General Roman Calendar, leaving his liturgical celebration to local calendars
The Roman Catholic Church continues to recognize him as a saint
Listing him as such in the February 14 entry in the Roman Martyrology
And authorizing liturgical veneration of him on February 14
In any place where that day is not devoted to some other
Obligatory celebration in accordance with the rule that on Such a day the Mass may be that of any saint listed in the Martyrology for that day. Use of the pre-1970 liturgical Calendar is also authorized under the conditions indicated in The motu proprio Summorum Pontificum of 2007. Saint Valentine's Church in Rome, built in 1960 for the needs of the Olympic Village, continues as a modern, well-visited parish church
Chorus:
Valentine's Day is Not About Giving
It’s a About Saint Valentine
You know what I’m saying
Yeah, You know what I’m saying
You say yeah and you say no
You know what I’m saying
Yeah, You know what I’m saying
Valentine's Day is Not About Giving
Co-Chorus:
You know that’s not about giving
It’s a About Saint Valentine
Valentine's Day is Not About Giving
You know that’s not about giving
It’s a About Saint Valentine
Valentine's Day is Not About Giving
Bridge 1:
You know a little bit about Valentine
Now you should know what it’s about
This great awesome man from the 220s
He will come and gave you respect
Verse 3:
Saint Valentine remains in the Roman Catholic Church's official list of saints, the Roman Martyrology, but, in view of the scarcity of information about him, his commemoration was removed from the General Roman Calendar, when this was revised in 1969. It is included in local calendars of places such as Balzan in Malta. Some Traditionalist Catholics observe earlier calendars of the Roman Rite, in which Saint Valentine was celebrated as a Simple Feast until 1955, when Pope Pius XII reduced the mention of him to a commemoration in the Mass of the day, a position it kept in the General Roman Calendar of 1960 incorporated in the 1962 edition of the Roman Missal, use of which, as an extraordinary form of the Roman Rite, is still authorized in accordance with Pope Benedict XVI's 2007 motu proprio Summorum Pontificum
Bridge 2:
You know that’s not about giving
It’s a About Saint Valentine
Valentine's Day is Not About Giving
Verse 4:
St. Valentine's remains are also claimed to be in Dublin. In 1836, some relics that were exhumed from the catacombs of Saint Hippolytus on the Via Tiburtina, then near (rather than inside) Rome, were identified with St Valentine; placed in a casket, and transported to the procession to the high altar for a special Mass dedicated to young people and all those in love. Also in 1836, Fr. John Spratt, an Irish priest and famous preacher, was given many tokens of esteem following a sermon in Rome. One gift from Pope Gregory XVI were the remains of St. Valentine and "a small vessel tinged with his blood." The Reliquary was placed in Whitefriar Street Church in Dublin, Ireland, and has remained there until this day. This was accompanied by a letter claiming the relics were those of St. Valentine
Outro:
February 14 is also celebrated as St. Valentine's Day in other Christian Churches; in the Church of England, for example, it was included in Calendars before the Reformation, and S.Valentine, Bishop and Martyr, was restored to the Church's Calendar in the 1661–62 Book of Common Prayer. He remains in the Calendars of the Church of England and in those of most other parts of the Anglican Communion
