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Only Love Is Real

This version of Only Love Is Real was released by Carole King in 1976.

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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

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Carole King has released many songs over the years besides Only Love Is Real. Carole King released songs from 1968 to 2005 spanning across albums like Now That Everything's Been Said, Writer, Tapestry, Music, Rhymes & Reasons, Fantasy, Wrap Around Joy, Really Rosie, Thoroughbred, Simple Things, Welcome Home, Touch The Sky, Pearls: Songs Of Goffin And King, One To One, Speeding Time, City Streets, Colour Of Your Dreams, Love Makes The World, and The Living Room Tour. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Carole King.

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About Lyrics and Only Love Is Real by Carole King

The lyrics for Only Love Is Real are defined as the words making up the song released by Carole King in 1976. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Only Love Is Real have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Carole King and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to Only Love Is Real by Carole King if you think through it. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Only Love Is Real" means the words set to the music of Only Love Is Real, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Carole King. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Only Love Is Real and the lyrics to Only Love Is Real are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Carole King who came here looking just for the lyrics to Only Love Is Real, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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