Only Love Is Real Chords by Carole King

_ [D] _ [G] _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ [Am] _
_ [Dm] _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ [G] As I [Gm] bask in the glow [C] of a just-lit fire, [Gm] feeling the warmth that [C] would flame grows
higher, [Gm] I think it's [Bb] true that nothing is really [Am] new.
Under the [C] [F] sun, _ watching [Dm] the new love grow from old love's embers.
Yesterday's gone, but [G] do they [Dm] remember?
[Bb] _ Doesn't it seem to come down the same [F] for _ everyone? _
[Bb] _ Only [Am] love is [Bb] what we need, _ [F] _ everything else's [Bb]
illusion.
_ [F] Only love can give _ [Em]
confusion, [A] love.
[Dm] The way we [G] connive at [C] being [F] alive, [Bb] chasing a line [Am] till we can define
[Dm] the thing that allows us to [G] feel.
[Bb] Only [Am] love, _ _ [Bb] _
_ only [C] love _ [Bb] to heal.
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[Am] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ [D] _
[F] _ _ [Dm] _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ [G] _ _ [Gm] Childhood dreams [Am] like muddy water [Gm] flowing through me to my [C] son.
_ _ [Bb] _ Everything I ever thought is [F] left to dry. _ _
_ Even [Dm] as I see the way that I [G] want to [Dm] go now, still I wish I had [G] known what I [Dm] know.
[Gm] Maybe I could have spared you, given [F] all you to me. _
[Bb] _ _ _ [Am] _ Only love _ _
[Bb] _ _ [F] is what we need, everything else's [Bb] illusion.
_ [F] Only love can give _ _ [Em]
confusion, [A] _ _ [Dm] _ _ [G] love.
The way we connive [C]
at being [F] alive, _ [Bb] chasing a line [Am] till we can define
[Dm] the thing that allows us [G] to feel.
[Bb] _ [F] Only _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ [C] love, _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ only [F] love _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ _ _ to [Gm]
heal.
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[C] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _
[Am] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ [Am] _
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[Am] _ [Dm] _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _