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[Verse 1]
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My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue,
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An everlasting vision ...of the ever - changing view,
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A wonderous woven magic ...in bits of blue and gold,
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A tapestry to feel and see, im - possible to hold
[Verse 2]
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Once, amid the soft silver sadness in the sky,
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There came a man of fortune, a drifter passing by,
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He wore a torn, and tattered, cloth a - round his leathered hide,
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And a coat of many colours, yellow/green on either side
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[Verse 3]
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He moved with some un - certainty, as if he didn't know,
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Just what he was there for, or where he ought to go,
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Once he reached for something golden hanging from a tree,
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And his hand came down emp - ty
[Verse 4]
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| / / / / | Soon, within my tapestry, a - long the rutted road,
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He sat down on a river rock, and turned in - to a toad,
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It seemed that he had fallen into someone's wicked spell,
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And I wept to see him suffer, though I didn't know him well
[Verse 5]
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As I watched in sorrow, there suddenly ap - peared...
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...A figure, grey and ghostly, be - neath a flowing beard,
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In times of deepest darkness, I've seen him dressed in black,
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Now my tapestry's un - ravelling, he's come to take me back,
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He's come ...to take ...me ...back! | / / / / | / / / / |
[Coda]
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