Carole King Only Love Is Real song lyrics

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)

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