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