- Nightingale lyrics - Carole King
- Change In Mind, Change Of Heart lyrics - Carole King
- Jazzman lyrics - Carole King
- You Go Your Way, I'll Go Mine lyrics - Carole King
- You're Something New lyrics - Carole King
- We Are All In This Together lyrics - Carole King
- Wrap Around Joy lyrics - Carole King
- You Gentle Me lyrics - Carole King
- My Lovin' Eyes lyrics - Carole King
- Sweet Adonis lyrics - Carole King
- A Night This Side Of Dying lyrics - Carole King
- The Best Is Yet To Come lyrics - Carole King
"Wrap Around Joy" (1974)
Nightingale lyrics - Carole King
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
Change In Mind, Change Of Heart lyrics - Carole King
You and I
We ought to try to face the fact
The things we thought had value
They've all been taken back
We've been losing track of time
But time's no easy mark
I can see you've got a change in mind
But what we need is a change of heart
I can see you've got a change in mind
But what we need's a change of heart
You and me
It seems that we've been holding out
The things that once held meaning
We're no longer sure about
We've been moving down the line
Losing what time we've got
And since you say you've had a change in mind
Why don't you try a little change of heart
I can see you've got a change in mind
But what we need's a change of heart
Now I'm not asking anymore of you
Than I ask of myself
Oh, but when I say we need a new approach
Well, I don't mean to someone else
Change, they say, it's the only way we grow
Oh, but the change we're showing
Let me tell you I just don't know
Seems to me that we could find some other way to start
Beginning with a change, a change in mind
And ending with a change, a change of heart
Oh, begin it with a change, a change in mind
But end it with a change, a change of heart
Jazzman lyrics - Carole King
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
You Go Your Way, I'll Go Mine lyrics - Carole King
You've put these distances between us
You've built these walls, they're your design
With sharp and angry lies, you've cut the binding ties
While making love seem so unkind
Well, allright, you go your way, I'll go mine
I'll get over you in time
There's nothing here to hold you now
Oh, it's your life, so make it shine
You go your way, I'll go mine
I've tried to justify your thinking
I've given in and been denied
Like a hundred times before, you take and ask for more
The only thing you leave is compromise
Well, allright, you go your way, I'll go mine
I'll get over you in time
There's nothing here to hold you now
We left those dreams so far behind
You go your way, I'll go mine
Oh, there's no need for false amending
Things get so confusing when you do
When love's become a loss, we spend our nights defending
I feel so damn defeated when we're through
But allright, you go your way, I'll go mine
I'll get over you in time
There's nothing here to hold you now
I just can't fight your willful mind
You go your way, I'll go mine
You're Something New lyrics - Carole King
When I left the world behind me
Retreating through the past
You reached out to find me
And brought me back at last
You've shown me something
Beyond my looking glass
Now love's in my reflection
In the shadow that you cast on me, and you
You're something new
You're something new
Under the sun
Under the moon, you're the light of creation
And I knew
That I'd come to love you
Life seemed oh-so-temporary
A case of here-and-gone
And I survived, just barely
Until you came along
But now each day I'm given
Is one more day I know
A love that's so unselfish
It's a pleasure just to show my love to you
You're something new
You're something new, under the sun
Under the moon, you're the light of creation
We Are All In This Together lyrics - Carole King
The just are seeking justice
The meek are reaching out
For something only children
Can really know about
And some men cry for mercy
While they deny their brothers' pain
And some men laugh for reasons
They can never quite explain
We are all in this together
And maybe we'll see that one day
When we conquer our fear together
When we finally find a way
And we all need forgiving
For all the damage done
For the things we do, not thinking
For the hurt that we've caused someone
But me, I keep on living
Caught somewhere there between
The reason and the meaning
The vision and the dream
We are all in this together
I know that seems easy to say
But I don't use the word forever
It's enough just to say someday
Wrap Around Joy lyrics - Carole King
My mama loves me, she's my best friend
I know my daddy's with me right to the end
Oh, but my baby's got the final say
And what he says, it turns me every way
But loose, he say now
Oo-ee, baby, wrap around joy
What it takes to save me, that wrap around joy
I believe in salvation, I don't doubt what I've found
I just can't do without it, oh, that good old wrap around
My baby calls me late Friday night
He sounds so crazy but he feels so right
He says, Get ready, mama, now lighten your load
And I'll be right over for the next episode
Here we go now
Oo-ee, baby, wrap around joy
That's what he gave me, that wrap around boy
He's been my undoin', I've been comin' unwound
But I don't mind unwindin' for some good old wrap around
Oo-ee, baby, wrap around joy
That's what he gave me, that wrap around boy
You Gentle Me lyrics - Carole King
When tempers flare to flame
When no one cares to listen while I'm trying to explain
You see the anger rise in me
And you calm me down again
Like the first spring lilac rain, you gentle me
Like innocence regained, you gentle me
And the feeling that remains grows stronger by degree
When you're gentle to me
When rumor comes to call
Suspicion's taking over and I'm back against the wall
You just smile assuringly
And my defenses fall
Like the first spring lilac rain, you gentle me
Like innocence regained, you gentle me
And the feeling that remains grows stronger by degree
When you're gentle to me
When life seems so relentless, you gentle me
When my striving seems so senseless, you gentle me
You lift my spirits, I get higher by degree
When you're gentle to me
When tension's taking shape
When I feel the pressure building and it's just too much to take
You touch the anxious need in me
With love for lovin's sake
Like the first spring lilac rain, you gentle me
Like innocence regained, you gentle me
And the feeling that remains grows stronger by degree
When you're gentle to me
My Lovin' Eyes lyrics - Carole King
It's hard enough to hear you
Express your sympathy
But it's harder still to feel the things
My eyes refuse to see
Oh, my lovin' eyes
When you look upon them, darlin', like you do
You bring these tears into
My lovin' eyes
I watch you take my self-respect
Accepting each excuse
When I've never seen the reason
For your moods or your abuse
Oh, my lovin' eyes
They hold you like the heavens hold the sun
But look what you've done to
My lovin' eyes
Like a man whose way is righteous
His faith in life resigned
I'm a child whose eyes are sightless
And my faith in you is truly blind
It's sad to think of living
As pain that we must feel
But it's sadder still to think of love
As something you conceal
Oh, my lovin' eyes
When you look upon them, darlin', like you do
You bring these tears into
My lovin' eyes
Sweet Adonis lyrics - Carole King
Waiting on tables while waiting on fame
In a city filled with numbers, they've forgotten their names
Like a lonely, broken people without title, without claim
When every day's survival is one more night of shame, night of shame
Welcome home, sweet Adonis
Welcome home, my old friend
I'm glad to see you made it through your contests once again
Welcome home, sweet Adonis
Your heart needs time to mend
Welcome home, sweet Adonis, my old friend
Hoping for the promise, staying for the show
In a world of brief advantage, the victims come and go
Their faces seem so honest, their manners have such style
Oh, but when hunger means existence
There's a feast in every smile, every smile
So welcome home, sweet Adonis
Welcome back, my old friend
I'm glad to see you made it up that hard road once again
Welcome home, sweet Adonis
Your highway's found an end
Welcome home, sweet Adonis, welcome home
A Night This Side Of Dying lyrics - Carole King
I remember one young sister with rainbows in her eyes
Standing on a corner with the afternoon's supply
She spoke of other places, perhaps a better road
Then she asked if I could tell her where they kept the mother lode
Like a night this side of dying
Her day's inside the dropper on the shelf
When she hears her lifeline crying
Not a thing you say can stop her
When she just can't stop herself
I remember that July, the panic and the heat
The savage shine of summer, the strychnine in the street
The way they sold each other for a favor in glassine
The best of friends sold brothers for a dime of quinine dreams
Like a night this side of dying
Her day's inside the dropper on the shelf
Like the shelter she's been buying
Not a thing I've got can save her
When she just can't save herself
She just can't save herself
The Best Is Yet To Come lyrics - Carole King
Hard times, hand to mouth, down and out, all those
Hard times
But we've seen the seasons turning
As we weathered every storm
And the climate of our loving
Is so tender and so warm
And the best is yet to come
This is only the beginning
And we've only just begun
To realize the best is yet to come
Heartache, more or less, so useless, all the
Heartache
But when the flood of sudden tears came down
We smiled and stood our ground
And the laughter we'd been counting on
It finally came around
And the best is yet to come
And it's getting so much better
Than anything I've known
And I know - oh, yes - the best is yet to come
"Fantasy" (1973)
Fantasy Beginning lyrics - Carole King
You've Been Around Too Long lyrics - Carole King
Being At War With Each Other lyrics - Carole King
Directions lyrics - Carole King
That's How Things Go Down lyrics - Carole King
Weekdays lyrics - Carole King
Haywood lyrics -Carole King
A Quiet Place To Live lyrics - Carole King
Welfare Symphony lyrics - Carole King
You Light Up My Life lyrics - carole king
Corazon lyrics - Carole King
Believe In Humanity lyrics - Carole King
Fantasy End lyrics - Carole King
Fantasy Beginning lyrics - Carole King
Looking for a way to say
The things I think about day by day
Listen to their meaning if you can
I may step outside myself
And speak as if I were someone else
That's one way I know you'll understand
In fantasy I can be black or white
A woman or a man
You've Been Around Too Long lyrics - Carole King
Ooh, I hear you say attitudes and times have changed
And I know the feeling - it's long overdue
You say this is a time to right old wrongs
Tell me now, if it's true
You got the mind, you got the time
How long are you gonna wait to do what you want to do now
You've been around too long
Not to notice what's going on in town
You've got to understand
I'm taking my life in my own hands
And gaining ground - look around
Peace of mind
You got yours - I want mine
If you really want to do right by me
See what you want to see
But let me be what I want to be
'Cause you've been around too long
Not to realize what's going on inside
I'm just like you
I'm doing the best that I can do to make my stride
Being At War With Each Other lyrics - Carole King
Everyone comes from one father, one mother
So why do we complicate our lives so much
By being at war with each other
Maybe I'm crazy but I don't understand it
Why do we seem to vote to dig more holes
It's such a waste of planet
There must be a reason that I can't see
Maybe somebody else knows better than me
All I know is everyone else is a sister or a brother
So we've got to look around again and stop
Being at war with each other
Being at war with each other
We've got to look around again and stop
Being at war with each other
Being at war with each other
Being at war with each other
Being at war with each other
Directions lyrics - Carole King
They tell me
When I've got my life on my mind
They're sorry
But they can't do a thing about it till tomorrow
I tell them
Now I don't want a lot of your time
Maybe they listen
Oh, but what do they know of my pain and my sorrow
Oooh, what will it cost you
After how many tears I've cried
How much longer must I try
Directions presenting themselves every day
Are bypassed
'Cause of somebody else's foolish limitations
Rejections - many have I had in my way
But I go on, yes, I do now, and try to overcome the bad vibrations
Oooh, what does it get you
Stealing somebody else's pride
How much longer must I cry
I can see all the things of which I've dreamed
If I dream any longer-what will it mean
Reflections
Of all I have wanted so long
Still are with me
As I ask myself how much longer must I try
That's How Things Go Down lyrics - Carole King
Here I am
Carrying the child of our sweet love
And you're far away
That's how things go down
But I want to see you again
Though I've known
Others in life who've made it on their own
I'm afraid
That's how things go down
But I want to see you again
Hey, with each day that passes by
I pray that I will see you soon
And you will be here with me
To see the child being born
Safe and sound
All I can do is wait and hope that you'll
Be around
That's how things go down
I want to see you again
In the end
All I can do is wait and hope that you'll
Be around
That's how things go down
I want to see you again
That's how things go down
I want to see you again
That's how things go down
Weekdays lyrics - Carole King
Weekday mornings
Coffee smell in the air
After you've gone and the children have left for school
I'm alone and I think about all the plans we made
I think about all the dreams I had
And I wonder if I'm a fool
Weekday midday
I've got the marketing done
Plenty to do but nothing to tax my mind
That's allright - it's a habit
Heaven knows I can always watch the daytime shows
And I wonder which story's mine
She loved a man she knew little about
After so many years of trying
So many years of doing without
Oh, but what's the use of crying
Weekday evenings
We sit and I realize
You've dreamed, too, and I kind of understand
I've been with you and you need me to take care of you
But we'll work it out so I'm a person, too
And we'll help each other out the best that we can
'Cause I'm your woman and you're my man
Haywood lyrics -Carole King
Haywood, where have you been, tell me now
Haywood, you been on the street again, I know, I know
Haywood, that man's not your friend
Haven't you had enough of the stuff
Oh, you know it's got to do you in
Remember John John
How mama stayed awake all night
The night they brought him in
She cried and said she always knew he was up to no good
It broke her heart the night he died
And she made me promise I'd stand by your side
And try to protect you from the evil in the neighborhood
Haywood, where have you been, tell me now
Haywood, you been on the street again, I know, I know
Haywood, hangin' out with your so-called friends
What makes you think that you'll be the one to put it down
Use your ears, use your eyes, just look around
Everyone's dying, everyone's going down
Just think of Vallorie
She's always been so good to you and you've never let her down
What about the life you planned
It can still come true, it's all up to you
I know it's hard to shake it
But you got to be a man and take it
I know this is no way to make it
It's not too late for you
Listen to me, Haywood
A Quiet Place To Live lyrics - Carole King
All I want is a quiet place to live
Where I can enjoy the fruits of my labor
Read the paper
And not have to cry out loud
In my mind I can see it crystal clear
Sharing my dreams with the people around me
Now they surround me
And I'm just a part of the crowd
What will become of us
What about the children
What will they do to us next time around
What will the answer be
What will it mean to me
When are they gonna see we're underground
Here underground
And all I want is a quiet place to live
Where I can be free in a world of my making
Instead of taking
What they decided to give
I wouldn't want what they have - no
If I could only find
A quiet place to live
Welfare Symphony lyrics - Carole King
Welfare workers
Prying into her life
Was she really someone's wife
And where was he
She often cried as they left her without a shred of pride
She had so many things to think about
So many children to feed
She had need of something that would ease her mind
(Store-front religion - play the numbers)
She had trouble in her time
She had so much trouble in her time
You Light Up My Life lyrics - carole king
You light up my life like sunrise in the morning
You make me believe anything is possible
I didn't have a dream to my name
Darkness was mine, it was such a shame
But you came to light up my life
You brought me faith and hope and love and light
With your tender smile you brought me to the promise
Of life outside a world of 9-to-5 and Sunday
I didn't know how rich I could be
Until you gave your love to me
Don't you see, you light up my life
You give me faith and hope and love and light
You brought your sweet understanding
Like sun rays in my hazy skies
If you hadn't opened up my eyes
Love would have passed me by, right on by
I never knew how good I could feel
Loving you's left me with nothing to conceal
Yeah - you really light up my life
You give me faith and hope and love and light
Corazon lyrics - Carole King
Corazon - mi corazon
Corazon - mi corazon
Yo te quiero - mi corazon
Corazon - mi corazon
Yo te quiero - mi corazon
Corazon - mi corazon
Yo te quiero - mi corazon
Espero que tu me quieras tambien
Corazon
Corazon - mi Corazon
Corazon - mi Corazon
Ayudame - mi Corazon
Yo te quiero - mi Corazon
Ayudame, te quiero, te quiero
Corazon
Believe In Humanity lyrics - Carole King
If you read the papers you may see
History in the making
You'll read what they say life is all about
They say it's there for the taking
Yeah, but you should really check it out
If you want to know what's shaking
But don't tell me about the things you've heard
Maybe I'm wrong, but I want to believe in humanity
I know it's often true - sad to say
We have been unkind to one another
Tell me how many times has the golden rule
Been applied by man to his brother
I believe if I really looked at what's going on
I would lose faith I never could recover
So don't tell me about the things you've heard
Maybe I'm wrong, but I want to believe in humanity
Maybe I'm living
With my head in the sand
I just want to see people giving
I want to believe in my fellow man
Yes, I want to believe
Fantasy End lyrics - Carole King
Now that I've expressed my soul
I'll step back into my real-life role
And hope I've brought you back across the line
You may think there's nothing you can do
To change what's all-too-true
But all you have to do is use your mind
In fantasy you can be anything you want to be
And someday our reality will be as good as never never land
"Rhymes & Reasons" (1972)
- Come Down Easy lyrics - Carole King
- My My She Cries lyrics - Carole King
- Peace In The Valley lyrics - Carole King
- Feeling Sad Tonight lyrics - Carole King
- The First Day In August lyrics - Carole King
- Bitter With The Sweet lyrics - Carole King
- Goodbye Don't Mean I'm Gone lyrics - Carole King
- Stand Behind Me lyrics - Carole King
- Gotta Get Through Another Day lyrics - Carole King
- I Think I Can Hear You lyrics - Carole King
- Ferguson Road lyrics - Carole King
- Been To Canaan lyrics - Carole King
Come Down Easy lyrics - Carole King
Daytimes run away
Nighttimes seem so long
I'm allright in the sunshine
But the evenings let me down
It sure is good to see you now
I'm really glad you came
And I would tell you what I need
But it never feels the same
So come down easy
Let it come down slow
I've been alone so long that I just don't know what to do
And I don't want to lose you
How my life slips away
How the time goes by
And I know I belong here
Yes, I know, though I don't know why
Riding along with a friend of mine
Got enough space, got enough time
Pieces of fruit and glasses of wine
And love comes in in the summertime
And I don't want to lose you
God bless the children
God bless us all
We are the children of Paradise
On our own now since the fall
All the things that are worth having
Are never ours to keep
Still I can see today could be
A good time for you and me
If you come down easy
My My She Cries lyrics - Carole King
My, my, she cries, everyone dies
She waits, but can't get an answer
All he wants to do is dance
Dance, dance, dance
All he wants to do is dance
My, my, he lies, look at those eyes
While moving in a little closer
Moving in on the girl he hardly knows
Oh, oh, oh
See how she flies, under the skies
He waits, but she no longer hears him
She's gone, gone, she's gone
She's flown away
See how she flies, breaking all ties
Did anybody really know her
Did anybody really know
Peace In The Valley lyrics - Carole King
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
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