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Artist: Carole King
Track: Tapestry

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My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue
An everlasting vision of the ever-changing view
A wondrous woven magic in bits of blue and gold
A tapestry to feel and see, impossible to hold

Once, amid the soft, silver sadness in the sky
There came a man of fortune, a drifter passing by
He wore a torn and tattered cloth around his leathered hide
And a coat of many colors, yellow, green on either side

He moved with some uncertainty, as if he didn't know
Just what he was there for, or where he ought to go
Once he reached for something golden hanging from a tree
And his hand came down empty

Soon within my tapestry, along the rutted road
He sat down on a river rock and turned into a toad
It seemed that he had fallen into someone's wicked spell
And I wept to see him suffer, though I didn't know him well

As I watched in sorrow, there suddenly appeared
A figure, gray and ghostly, beneath a flowing beard
In times of deepest darkness, I've seen him dressed in black
Now my tapestry's unraveling, he's come to take me back
He's come to take me back
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Carole King - Tapestry Lyrics
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He's come to take me back. Edit Lyrics. Lyrics submitted by SongMeanings. Tapestry Lyrics as written by Carole King. Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC.
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Carole King – Tapestry
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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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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[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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