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   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      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 what I know now   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