Tapestry - Carole King: Song Lyrics, Music Videos & Concerts

Tapestry

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Singer/Songwriter

Tapestry was released on February 10, 1971 by Ode/Epic/Legacy as a part of the album Tapestry

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OVERVIEW

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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS

Carole King

Vocals

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

Carole King

Songwriter

PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING

Lou Adler

Producer

Hank Cicalo

Engineer

Lyrics

[Verse 1]

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

[Verse 2]

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

[Bridge]

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

[Verse 3]

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

[Verse 4]

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

Written by: Carole King

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