Carol King Tapestry Lyrics

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.

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.