Genius Meanings
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Carole King – Smackwater Jack
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This is the “oddball” track on Tapestry, since it deviates from the personal voyage the singer is experiencing throughout the album. It’s kind of a comic relief from he heavier
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Carole King – Smackwater Jack (Live)
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[Intro] / "I Can't Make It Alone!" That's too bad. / Thank you. It's, it's nice that you know that, that I wrote that one. However, I don't know that one. / No I always, I always
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Carole King & James Taylor – Blossom (Live at the Troubadour)
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Blossom, smile some sunshine down my way / Lately I've been lonesome / Blossom, it's been much too long a day / Seems my dreams have frozen / Melt my cares away / Send the sunshine
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Carole King & James Taylor – Will You Love Me Tomorrow (Live at the Troubadour)
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Tonight you're mine completely / You give your love so sweetly / Tonight the light of love is in your eyes / But will you love me tomorrow? / Is this a lasting treasure / Or just a
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Carole King & James Taylor – Something in the Way She Moves (Live at the Troubadour)
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[Verse 1] / There's something in the way she moves or looks my way or calls my name / That seems to leave this troubled world behind / And if I'm feeling down and blue or troubled
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Carole King & James Taylor – Up on the Roof (Live at the Troubadour)
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When this old world starts a-getting me down / And people are just too much for me to face / I'll climb way up to the top of the stairs / And all my cares just drift right into
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Carole King & James Taylor – Sweet Baby James (Live at the Troubadour)
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There is a young cowboy he lives on the range / His horse and his cattle are his only companions / He works in the saddle and he sleeps in the canyons / Waiting for summer, his
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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 & James Taylor – You Can Close Your Eyes (Live at the Troubadour)
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[Verse 1] / Well the sun is surely sinkin' down / But the moon is slowly risin' / So this old world must still be spinnin' around / And I still love you / [Chorus] / So close your
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Carole King – After All This Time
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[Intro] / It's apple juice. I know that's hard to believe, but... / [Verse 1] / Ooh, I get a feeling / Every night when you come home / That life is sweet, yeah, baby / Sweeter
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Carole King & James Taylor – So Far Away (Live at the Troubadour)
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[Chorus] / So far away / Doesn't anybody stay in one place anymore / It would be so fine to see your face at my door / Doesn't help to know you're just time/so far away / [Verse 1
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Carole King – Up On The Roof (Live)
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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 – 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 – Way Over Yonder (Live)
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[Verse 1] / Way over yonder / Is a place that I know / Where I can find shelter / From hunger and cold / And the sweet tastin' good life / Is so easily found / Way over yonder
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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 (Live)
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[Chorus] / You've got to get up every morning with a smile on your face / And show the world all the love in your heart / Then people gonna treat you better / You're gonna find
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Carole King – Home Again
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[Verse] / Sometimes I wonder if I'm ever gonna make it home again / It's so far and out of sight / I really need someone to talk to, and nobody else / Knows how to comfort me
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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 – Where You Lead
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In this and the previous song – You’ve Got a Friend on the album the “story teller” – this time the writer again is Tori Stern, who also wrote the lyrics for It’s Too Late, talks
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – So Far Away (Live)
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[Chorus] / So far away / Doesn't anybody stay in one place any more? / It would be so fine to see your face at my door / It doesn't help to know you're just time away / Long ago I
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Carole King – You've Got a Friend
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Written in 1969 by Carole King and included in her Grammy winning and Album of the Year (1972) Tapestry. It was written for her fellow co-workers, married couple, Cynthia Weil and
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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 – Pocket Money
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[Intro] / No friends, no dreams, no pocket money / [Verse 1] / There's a wall around my body / A fence around my kind / Nothing comes to me easily / Not leastwise peace of mind / [
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Carole King – At This Time in My Life
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[Verse 1] / At this time in my life, very conscious of who I am / I know that who I am doesn't matter / All the chatter that goes on between / As we talk around what we really mean
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Carole King (Ft. James Taylor) – You've Got a Friend (Live)
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[Intro: Carole King] / Thank you. I'm gonna be right back. / Surprise! Oh. / We'd like to do a little tune for you. Maybe even a big tune. / [Verse 1: Carole King] / When you're
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Carole King – Believe in Humanity (Live)
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[Part I: Believe in Humanity] / [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
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Carole King & James Taylor – Carolina in My Mind (Live at the Troubadour)
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[Chorus] / In my mind, I'm going to Carolina / Can't you see the sunshine? / Now can't you just feel the moonshine? / And ain't it just like a friend of mine to hit me from behind
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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 & James Taylor – You've Got a Friend (Live at the Troubadour)
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[Carole King] / When you're down and troubled / And you need some loving care / And nothing, nothing is going right / Close your eyes and think of me / And soon I will be there
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Eternal – I Feel the Earth Move
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I feel the earth move under my feet / I feel the sky tumbling down / I feel my heart start to trembling / Whenever you're around / Ooh, baby, when I see your face / Mellow as the
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BeBe & CeCe Winans (Ft. Aretha Franklin) – You’ve Got a Friend
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When you're down and troubled / And you need a helping hand / And nothing, nothing is going right / Close your eyes and think of me / And soon I will be there / To brighten up even
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Bee Gees – Will You Love Me Tomorrow
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Tonight you're mine, completely / You give your soul so sweetly / Tonight the light of love is in your eyes / But will you love me tomorrow / Is this a lasting treasure / Or just a
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