| Song | Tapestry |
| Artist | Don McLean |
| Album | Tapestry |
| Download | Image LRC TXT |
| Every thread of creation is held in position | |
| by still other strands of things living. | |
| In an earthly tapestry hung from the skyline | |
| of smouldering cities so gray and so vulgar, | |
| as not to be satisfied with their own negativity | |
| but needing to touch all the living as well. | |
| Every breeze that blows kindly is one crystal breath | |
| we exhale on the blue diamond heaven. | |
| As gentle to touch as the hands of the healer. | |
| As soft as farewells whispered over the coffin. | |
| We're poisoned by venom with each breath we take, | |
| from the brown sulphur chimney and the black highway snake. | |
| Every dawn that breaks golden is held in suspension | |
| like the yoke of the egg in albumen. | |
| Where the birth and the death of unseen generations | |
| are interdependent in vast orchestration | |
| and painted in colors of tapestry thread. | |
| When the dying are born and the living are dead. | |
| Every pulse of your heartbeat is one liquid moment | |
| that flows through the veins of your being. | |
| Like a river of life flowing on since creation. | |
| Approaching the sea with each new generation. | |
| You're now just a stagnant and rancid disgrace | |
| that is rapidly drowning the whole human race. | |
| Every fish that swims silent, every bird that flies freely, | |
| every doe that steps softly. | |
| Every crisp leaf that falls, all the flowers that grow | |
| on this colourful tapestry, somehow they know. | |
| That if man is allowed to destroy all they need. | |
| He will soon have to pay with his life, for his greed. |
| Every thread of creation is held in position | |
| by still other strands of things living. | |
| In an earthly tapestry hung from the skyline | |
| of smouldering cities so gray and so vulgar, | |
| as not to be satisfied with their own negativity | |
| but needing to touch all the living as well. | |
| Every breeze that blows kindly is one crystal breath | |
| we exhale on the blue diamond heaven. | |
| As gentle to touch as the hands of the healer. | |
| As soft as farewells whispered over the coffin. | |
| We' re poisoned by venom with each breath we take, | |
| from the brown sulphur chimney and the black highway snake. | |
| Every dawn that breaks golden is held in suspension | |
| like the yoke of the egg in albumen. | |
| Where the birth and the death of unseen generations | |
| are interdependent in vast orchestration | |
| and painted in colors of tapestry thread. | |
| When the dying are born and the living are dead. | |
| Every pulse of your heartbeat is one liquid moment | |
| that flows through the veins of your being. | |
| Like a river of life flowing on since creation. | |
| Approaching the sea with each new generation. | |
| You' re now just a stagnant and rancid disgrace | |
| that is rapidly drowning the whole human race. | |
| Every fish that swims silent, every bird that flies freely, | |
| every doe that steps softly. | |
| Every crisp leaf that falls, all the flowers that grow | |
| on this colourful tapestry, somehow they know. | |
| That if man is allowed to destroy all they need. | |
| He will soon have to pay with his life, for his greed. |
| Every thread of creation is held in position | |
| by still other strands of things living. | |
| In an earthly tapestry hung from the skyline | |
| of smouldering cities so gray and so vulgar, | |
| as not to be satisfied with their own negativity | |
| but needing to touch all the living as well. | |
| Every breeze that blows kindly is one crystal breath | |
| we exhale on the blue diamond heaven. | |
| As gentle to touch as the hands of the healer. | |
| As soft as farewells whispered over the coffin. | |
| We' re poisoned by venom with each breath we take, | |
| from the brown sulphur chimney and the black highway snake. | |
| Every dawn that breaks golden is held in suspension | |
| like the yoke of the egg in albumen. | |
| Where the birth and the death of unseen generations | |
| are interdependent in vast orchestration | |
| and painted in colors of tapestry thread. | |
| When the dying are born and the living are dead. | |
| Every pulse of your heartbeat is one liquid moment | |
| that flows through the veins of your being. | |
| Like a river of life flowing on since creation. | |
| Approaching the sea with each new generation. | |
| You' re now just a stagnant and rancid disgrace | |
| that is rapidly drowning the whole human race. | |
| Every fish that swims silent, every bird that flies freely, | |
| every doe that steps softly. | |
| Every crisp leaf that falls, all the flowers that grow | |
| on this colourful tapestry, somehow they know. | |
| That if man is allowed to destroy all they need. | |
| He will soon have to pay with his life, for his greed. |