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