Friday, December 17, 2004

TAPESTRY

I have included these Tapestry lyrics by Carole King before in my journal before, but need to include them again!

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 leathered hide

And a coat of many colors, yellow-green on either side

He moves 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 hands come 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, tough 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 came to take me back  

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Dear Luanne,
I think I've told you before, Carol King has helped me through many illness's and trauma's in my life. I just love her. I know every word of all her songs on Tapestry by heart. All my family knows that when we sing karoke that I will be singing Carol's music. Just love her lyrics, gives me comfort. Tina

Anonymous said...

Luanne I just have gotten this CD. I grew up listening to this album. I loved it then and I still love it now. Every song goes straight to the heart.                                Love, Donna