 Genius Lyrics
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Carole King – So Far Away
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The second track on the album Tapestry is a most personal song in a very personal album. It weaves her own experience as a songwriter and a performer and the constant travelling
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Carole King – Beautiful
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The albums fifth song could have been easily placed in the end – having the positive message that everything is beautiful – if we make it so.
Upbeat tempo, with prominent musical
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Carole King – Tapestry
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The song that is also the albums title.
Per Carole King:
just sort of happened, that I had started a needlepoint tapestry a few months before we did the album, and I happened to
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Carole King – Locomotion
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[Verse 1] / Everybody's doin' a brand new dance now / Come on baby, do the locomotion / I know you'll get to like it if you give it a chance now / Come on baby, do the locomotion
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Carole King – Music
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[Verse 1] / Music is playing inside my head / Over and over and over again / My friend, there's no end to the music / [Chorus] / Ah, summer is over / But the music keeps playing
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Carole King – Will You Love Me Tomorrow?
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Carole is frequently asked about these lyrics, which portray the uncertainty of a young woman dealing with sex. However, they were written by her then-husband, Gerry Goffin. King
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Carole King – (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman
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The hit song written by Carole King and husband-writing partner Gerry Goffin in 1967 specifically for Aretha Franklin.
This intimate song closes the story in this very intimate
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Carole King – Up On the Roof
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[Verse 1] / When this old world starts getting me down / And people are just too much for me to face / I climb way up to the top of the stairs / And all my cares just drift right
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Carole King – I Feel the Earth Move
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This and It’s Too Late were double A-sided single that were huge hits in 1971. It was a number 1 hit on the Billboard chart for 5 weeks.
The first track on her much acclaimed
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Carole King – Jazzman
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This song peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard chart and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal performance.
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Carole King – Nightingale
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[Verse 1] / Like some night bird, homeward wingin' / He seeks the sheltered nest / Like the sailor's lost horizon / He needs some place to rest / The songs that he's been singin
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Carole King – Pleasant Valley Sunday
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[Verse 1] / The local rock group down the street / Is trying hard to learn their song / They serenade the weekend squire / Who just came out to mow the lawn / [Chorus] / Another
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PISSKISS – carole king
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[Verse 1] / Wood from the 70s / King, Mitchell, and Springsteen / No room to sip our coffee / So we’ll sit on love street / Cat on the windowsill / A cottage on the hill / They
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Carole King – Way Over Yonder
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After being So Far Away and wishing to be Home Again, it seems that the writer has found a place - either physically, or deep inside. She is not there yet, but she knows where to
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Carole King – Believe in Humanity
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[Verse 1] / Ah, if you read the papers you may see / History in the making / You'll read what they say life is all about / They say it's there for the taking / Yeah, but you should
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Carole King – One Fine Day
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[Verse 1] / One fine day / You will look at me / And you will know our love was meant to be / One fine day / You're gonna want me for your girl / [Verse 2] / The arms I long for
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Carole King – Brother, Brother
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[Intro] / Ooh hoo / Ooh hoo / [Chorus] / Ooh, brother, brother, brother / I know you've been layin' back a long time / But I love you, love you like no other / Oh, brother, brother
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Carole King – It's Too Late
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Arguably Carole King’s most popular song (and the competition is fierce). It was released as a single and topped the charts in April, 1971. Ironically, it was displaced as No. 1 by
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Carole King – One
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Poetic phrases come to mind / Whenever I find injustice being done / And I wonder, what am I gonna do / What can one do except to be one / Talking to two, touching three / Growing
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Carole King – Goin' Back
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[Verse 1] / I think I'm goin' back / To the things I learned so well in my youth / I think I'm returning to / The days when I was young enough to know the truth / Now there are no
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Carole King – One to One
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[Verse 1] / If I am the question / You are the answer / If you are the music / I am the dancer / Through all of the madness / And all of the sadness / Of day-to-day living / We
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Carole King – Chanukah Prayer
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Barukh atah Adonai, Eloheinu, melekh ha'olam asher kidishanu b'mitz'votav v'tzivanu l'had'lik neir shel Chanukah. (Amein)
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Carole King – Sweet Seasons
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It wasn’t easy to follow Tapestry, one of the best selling ever albums, with another gem, but Carole King did it with Music.
It topped the charts in Dec ‘71, and spawned hits
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Carole King – Chains
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[Chorus] / Chains, my baby's got me locked up in chains / And they ain't the kind / That you can see / Whoa, these chains of love got a hold on me, yeah / Chains, well I can't
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Carole King – To Love
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[Verse 1] / Down the road apiece he was waiting / Yes, he was waiting and you know me / I have had my fill of hesitating / And I always knew it had to be / [Chorus] / To love, to
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Carole King – Wasn’t Born to Follow
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You think you know a song, and then you hear it by the songwriter. This is a bluegrass spiritual to mother nature. It features Mark Maniscalco on banjo and King on piano, and it
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Carole King – Out in the Cold
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[Verse 1] / I only wanted to play / I thought what he didn't know wouldn't hurt him anyway / But he found out / And someone else gave him her hand to hold / And suddenly I find
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Carole King – You Still Want Her
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YOU STILL WANT HER / By Carole King / From the shelter of your solitude you see her / Running circles round the emptiness within / And you wonder what it's been like to be her / As
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Carole King – Computer Eyes
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Computer Eyes--it hurts to tell you I don't really want you / But I know if I leave you, it won't really grieve you / 'Cause y'really don't have a soul to haunt you / Computer Eyes
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Carole King – Oh Neil
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Carole King’s tongue in cheek “reply” to her schoolmate Neil Sedaka’s big hit “Oh! Carol”.
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Carole King – City Streets
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CITY STREETS / By Carole King / River wind is icy / Chills run through my bones / Tides of life are ebbing out / Between the cobblestones / The streets are on fire / With the
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Carole King (Ft. James Taylor) – Will You Love Me Tomorrow/Some Kind of Wonderful/Up on the Roof
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[Part I: Will You Love Me Tomorrow?] / [Verse 1: Carole King, Carole King & James Taylor] / Tonight you're mine completely / You give your love so sweetly / Tonight the light of
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Carole King – The First Day in August
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[Verse 1] / On the first day in August / I wanna wake up by your side / After sleeping with you / On the last night in July / In the morning / We'll catch the sun rising / And we'
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Carole King – Ties That Bind
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[Verse 1] / Once I heard long, long ago / That love's so hard to find / But if you got it, don't let go / All the ties that bind / [Verse 2] / The times when I can hold you / In my
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Carole King (Ft. k.d. lang) – An Uncommon Love
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[Verse 1: Carole King] / Why do we isolate each other? / All the walls we build between us / Make it so hard to be together / [Verse 2: k.d. lang] / How can we tear at one another
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Carole King – It's Going to Take Some Time
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[Verse 1] / It's gonna take some time this time / To get myself in shape / I really fell out of line this time / I really missed the gate / The birds on the telephone line (Next
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Carole King – Come Down Easy
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[Verse 1] / Daytimes run away / Nighttimes seem so long / I'm all right in the sunshine / But the evenings let me down / It sure is good to see you now / I'm really glad you came
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Carole King – Colour of Your Dreams
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[Verse 1] / Live in the colour of your dreams / Know everything you see is not quite what it seems / Take everything you have to give / If you believe it, you can make it what you
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