health | March 23, 2026

Carole King - Tapestry Lyrics Meaning

A richly beautiful, but haunting song about having love for that Someone from a ''distant'' past that wasn't well known or understood in her life's ''Tapestry'', where That Man was bewitched by a wicked spell and who eventually was left abanded by the side of the road, hopping like a toad that finally landed on a river rock, waiting in the sun for warmth and to be seen. THEN, ''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''. Anotherwords, sometimes it only takes a genuine faithful kiss of love to turn back the wicked spell[Toad] back into a Prince or a King for Him to be free to make him the man dressed in black through Him like a Knight in shinning armor that came to take her back to a Heavenly Place or like the saying goes Heaven can wait a little longer now while They're here on Earth.