Only Love Is Real Lyrics - The Essential Carole King - Carole King

As I bask in the glow of a just-lit fire 

Feeling the warmth as the flames grow higher 

I think it's true that nothing 

is really new under the sun 

Watching a new love grow 

from old love's embers 

Yesterday's gone but today remembers 

Doesn't it seem to come down the same for everyone 

(Chorus) 

Only love is real 

Everything else illusion 

Adding to the confusion of the way we connive 

At being alive 

Tracing a line till we can define 

The thing that allows us to feel 

Only love is real 

Childhood dreams like muddy waters 

Flowing through me to my son and daughters 

Everything I ever thought is confirmed as truth to me 

Even as I see the way that I want to go now 

Still I had wished I had known what I know now 

Maybe I could have spared you 

Giving your youth to me 

(Chorus) 

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Only love is real 

Everything else illusion 

Adding to the confusion of the way we connive 

At being alive 

Tracing a line till we can define 

The thing that allows us to feel 

Only love is real 

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