Tapestry Lyrics - Tapestry - Carole King

My life has been a tapestry 

Of rich and royal hue; 

An everlasting vision 

Of the ever-changing view; 

A wond'rous 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. 

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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 emp-ty. 

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. 

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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.