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Rita64 Songs which evoke mental images (31) Lyr Add: TAPESTRY (Carole King) 25 Jun 99


Whoopsie doodle! I did have the verses a little skewed. Here are the correct lyrics of TAPESTRY by Carole King:

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TAPESTRY
(Carole King)

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 leather 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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