Genius Meanings
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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 (Ft. Louise Goffin) – Where You Lead I Will Follow
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A reimagined duet version of the original, this recording is most well known for being the theme song of the television show Gilmore Girls. With vocals provided by mother-daughter
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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 – 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 – 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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Faith Hill – Where You Lead
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(Carole King/Toni Stern) / Wanting you the way I do / I only want to be with you / And I would go / To the ends of the earth / 'Cause, darling / To me that's what / You're worth
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Barbra Streisand – Sweet Inspiration / Where You Lead
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I need your sweet inspiration / I need you here on my mind / Every hour of the day / Without your sweet inspiration / The lonely hours of the night / Just don't go my way / Wanting
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The Shirelles – Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow
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[Verse 1] / 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? / [Verse 2] / Is this a
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Carole King – Someone You Never Met Before
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When the sun goes down / Over the canyon / And you're feeling / Lost and abandoned / Some stranger may knock / Upon your door / And it may be like knowing / Someone you never met
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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 – Someone Who Believes in You
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When there's a dark storm your horizon / And you think you can't get through it / Just put your hand in my hand / And I'll show you how to do it / When your future looks uncertain
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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 – 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 – Oh No Not My Baby
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[Verse 1] / When my friends told me you had someone new / I didn't believe a single word was true / I showed them all I had faith in you / I just kept on saying / [Chorus] / Oh, no
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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 – 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 – No Easy Way Down
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[Verse 1] / Your toy balloon has sailed in the sky / But now it must fall to the ground / Now your sad eyes reveal / Just how badly you feel / 'Cause there is no easy way down / [
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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 (Ft. Céline Dion) – The Reason
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I figured it out / I was high and low and everything in between / I was wicked and wild, baby, you know what I mean / Till there was you, yeah, you / Something went wrong / I made
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The Monkees – As We Go Along
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[Verse 1] / I can tell by your face that you're looking to find a place / To settle your mind and reveal who you are / And you shouldn't be shy, for I'm not gonna try / To hurt you
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Carole King – Monday Without You
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Yesterday was a perfect day / Living in make-believe / Perfect together / In your eyes I was number one / And you were all the world to me / Forever, ever and ever / But you have
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Carole King – I Wasn't Gonna Fall in Love
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When I met you, I let you know / I didn't want to go the way I'd gone before / That door was closed - I was just looking for fun / And you were the right one, you got it / So we
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The Byrds – Wasn't Born to Follow
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The lyrics are rural, simple and graceful, and speak of our need for independence. It’s one of the more country songs the Byrds ever recorded.
One of the most memorable uses of
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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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The Byrds – 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 / Those days when I was young enough to know the truth / Now there are
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