[ti:Tapestry] [ar:Eleanor Tomlinson] [al:Tales from Home] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Tapestry - Eleanor Tomlinson [00:02.30]Lyricist:Carole King [00:04.61]Composer:Carole King [00:06.92]My life has been a tapestry of rich [00:11.89]And royal hue [00:14.75]An everlasting vision of the [00:19.01]Ever changing view [00:22.45]A wondrous woven magic [00:25.90]In bits of blue and gold [00:29.67]A tapestry to feel and see [00:33.70]Impossible to hold [00:44.99]Once amid the soft and [00:47.88]Silver sadness in the sky [00:52.24]There came a man of fortune [00:55.86]A drifter passing by [00:59.78]He wore a torn and tattered cloth [01:03.54]Around his leathered hide [01:07.02]And a coat of many colors [01:10.58]Yellow green on either side [01:18.39]He moved with some uncertainty [01:22.14]As if we didn't know [01:25.85]Just what he was there for [01:29.61]Or where he ought to go [01:33.75]Once he reached for something golden [01:37.58]Hanging from a tree [01:40.38]And his hand came down empty [01:56.01]Soon within my tapestry [01:59.64]Along the rutted road [02:03.40]He sat down on a river rock [02:06.98]And turned into a toad [02:10.85]It seemed that he had fallen [02:14.49]Into someone's wicked spell [02:18.25]And I wept to see him suffer [02:22.10]Though I didn't know him well [02:26.25]As I watched in sorrow [02:29.66]There suddenly appeared [02:33.48]A figure gray and ghostly [02:37.10]Beneath a flowing beard [02:41.15]In times of deepest darkness [02:44.81]I've seen him dressed in black [02:48.32]Now my tapestry's unraveling [02:54.36]He's come to take me back [03:01.70]He's come to take me back