Carole King
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Snow Queen
High on a snow-covered mountain
From her throne she looks
down at the clowns
Who think youth can be found in a fountain
High on the wings of her rhythms
She will smile at the
guys who come on with their eyes
But she'll never dance with them
And in smoke-filled rooms of electric sound
A legend is
built around
The Snow Queen
You may believe you're a winner
But with her you will soon
bite the dust
And discover you're just a beginner
You may not think you're a loser
But in mid-air you'll be
hung while you trip on your tongue
And it'll only amuse her
In the morning air you are frozen there
Caught in the icy
stare of
The Snow Queen
No, my friend, she doesn't want what you're selling
My
friend, there must be a place you can hide
And into the night you'll fade,
knowing you lost the game
And just how she got her name of
The Snow Queen
Child Of Mine
Although you see the world different than me
Sometimes I
can touch upon the wonders that you see
All the new colors and pictures
you've designed
Oh yes, sweet darling
So glad you are a child of mine
Child of mine, child of mine
Oh yes, sweet darling
So
glad you are a child of mine
You don't need direction, you know which way to go
And I
don't want to hold you back, I just want to watch you grow
You're the one who
taught me you don't have to look behind
Oh yes, sweet darling
So glad you
are a child of mine
Child of mine, child of mine
Oh yes, sweet darling
So
glad you are a child of mine
Nobody's gonna kill your dreams
Or tell you how to live
your life
There'll always be people to make it hard for a while
But you'll
change their heads when they see you smile
The times you were born in may not have been the best
But
you can make the times to come better than the rest
I know you will be honest
if you can't always be kind
Oh yes, sweet darling
So glad you are a child
of mine
Child of mine, child of mine,
Oh yes, sweet darling
So
glad you are a child of mine
Child of mine, child of mine
Oh yes, sweet darling
So
glad you are a child of mine
Tapestry
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 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
A Natural Woman
Lookin' out on the morning rain
I used to feel uninspired
And when I knew I had to face another day
Lord, it made me feel so tired
Before the day I met you, life was so unkind
But your love
was the key to my peace of mind
'Cause you make me feel
You make me feel
You make me
feel like
A natural woman
When my soul was in the lost-and-found
You came along to
claim it
I didn't know just what was wrong with me
Till your kiss helped
me name it
Now I'm no longer doubtful of what I'm living for
'Cause
if I make you happy I don't need to do more
You make me feel
You make me feel
You make me feel like
A natural woman
Oh, baby, what you've done to me
You make me feel so good
inside
And I just want to be close to you
You make me feel so alive
You make me feel
You make me feel
You make me feel like
A natural woman
I Feel The Earth Move
I feel the earth move under my feet
I feel the sky
tumbling down, tumbling down
I feel my heart start to trembling
Whenever
you're around
Ooh, baby, when I see your face
Mellow as the month of May
Oh, darling, I can't stand it
When you look at me that way
I feel the earth move under my feet
I feel the sky
tumbling down, tumbling down
I feel my heart start to trembling
Whenever
you're around
Oh, darling, when you're near me
And you tenderly call my
name
I know that my emotions
Are something I just can't tame
I've just
got to have you, baby
I feel the earth move under my feet
I feel the sky
tumbling down, tumbling down
I feel the earth move under my feet
I feel
the sky tumbling down
I just lose control
Down to my very soul
I get a
hot and cold all over
I feel the earth move under my feet
I feel the sky
tumbling down,
Tumbling down, tumbling down...
Been To Canaan
Green fields and rolling hills
Room enough to do what we
will
Sweet dreams of yestertime
Are running through my mind
Of a place
I left behind
Been so long, I can't remember when
I've been to Canaan
and I want to go back again
Been so long, I'm living till then
'Cause I've
been to Canaan and I won't rest until I go back again
Though I'm content with myself
Sometimes I long to be
somewhere else
I try to do what I can
But with our day-to-day demands
We all need a promised land
And it's been so long, I can't remember when
I've been to
Canaan and I want to go back again
Been so long, I'm living till then
'Cause I've been to Canaan and I won't rest until I go back again
Oh, I want to be there in the wintertime
With a fireplace
burning to warm me
And you to hold me when it's stormy
Been so long, I can't remember when
I've been to Canaan
and I want to go back again
Been so long, I'm living till then
'Cause I've
been to Canaan and I won't rest until I go back again
Peace In The Valley
Looking out my window
Peace in the valley just don't come
Though I know that man's my brother
And that I'm the selfish one
The hour is getting later
It's time we had begun
Knowing something's one thing
But the race must still be run
Take care of little jealousies
And talk that kills for fun
And hold your heart in readiness
It's so easy to come undone
But I think I saw a brand new light
Coming over the
horizon
Brighter than all the others
And it says all men are brothers
under the skin
Brothers under the skin
Looking out my window
Peace in the valley just don't come
Though I know that she's my sister
And that I'm the selfish one
And I look at all the people
And I love the ones I can
And I wonder if the dream will be
Or be turned into sand
Still I think I saw a brand new light
Coming over the
horizon
Brighter than all the others
And it says all men are brothers
under the skin
Brothers under the skin
Peace in the valley just don't come
Nightingale
Like some night bird, homeward wingin'
He seeks the
sheltered nest
Like the sailor's lost horizon
He needs some place to rest
The songs that he's been singin'
No longer make much sense
And those
strangers' cold perceptions
They've killed his confidence
Nightingale
She sails away upon a sea of song
Nightingale
She serenades his lonely, lonely life along
When his tired
voice is broken
His golden hope is gone
She makes a lost soul's simple
longing
Somehow not so wrong
Nightingale
Nightingale
He was strong, but he was taken
By the thought of his
success
Those spotlight shadows, how they lured him
And took him like all
the rest
But that old dream don't look good now
No, it don't seem quite
the same
He needs to hear a tender word
Won't you sing him home again
Nightingale
She sails away upon a sea of song
Nightingale
She serenades his lonely, lonely life along
When his strength
is slowly goin'
His pride is all but gone
She makes a foolish dreamer
listen
To one last song
Nightingale
Nightingale
Jazzman
Lift me, won't you lift me above the old routine
Make it
nice, play it clean, Jazzman
When the Jazzman's testifyin'
A faithless man believes
He can sing you into paradise
Or bring you to your knees
It's a gospel
kind of feelin'
A touch of Georgia slide
A song of pure revival
And a
style that's sanctified
Jazzman, take my blues away
Make my pain the same as yours
With every change you play
Jazzman, oh, Jazzman
When the Jazzman's signifyin'
And the band is windin' low
It's the late night side of morning
In the darkness of his soul
He can
fill a room with sadness
As he fills his horn with tears
He can cry like a
fallen angel
When risin' time is near
Jazzman, take my blues away
Make my pain the same as yours
With every change you play
Oh, lift me, won't you lift me with every turnaround
Play
it sweetly, take me down, oh, Jazzman
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