Only Love Is Real
written by Carole King
performed by Carole King
from "Thoroughbred", 1976
[Capo on the 3rd fret]
(4x)
As I bask in the glow of a just-lit fire
feeling the warmth as the flame grows 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
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doesn't it seem to come down the same for everyone?
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, only love is real.
(4x)
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 wish I had known twhat I know now
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maybe I could have spared you giving your youth to me.
Only love is real, everything else illusion
/
adding to the confusion of the way we contrive to just stay alive
tracing a line till we can define
the thing that allows us to feel
only love is real, only love is real,
only love is real, only love is real.
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