i've never come across another artist who's songs are so cleverly crafted, his meaning are so deep, he is visionary, he doesnt write songs he constructs them and builds them so accuratly and with such precision, end result these beautiful songs, thank you Don

There are 3 songs on this planet that make me cry Don has written 2 of them, he is probably the most poetic and beautiful songwriter of our time.

Love Don... Everything he has written is so Profound. Beautiful

The lyrics are weaved into a perfect tapestry. The song is just so wonderful to hear and listen with our ears, but even more beautiful when fully understood because it also touches one's heart and soul.

love don mclean but id never heard this song before...im speechless at how fantastic it was, and sad at how relevant it still is.

Mclean had a real gift for the lyric and meaning and purpose and something we might want to pay attention to.

his guitar is his weapon and his words are the seeds great hope is renewed peace and happyness to everyone

crossroads is heart wrenching. McLean is the only man who can melt my heart.

What an intensely profound song.

The lyrics of an old folk song , surpass any modern music style. As if the words had a power, a life of their own. Quite amazing. All you have to do is, listen.

and a golden touch...just not commercially....voice of an angel...

Agree. Don McLean's lyrics are like poetry, so beautifully written and rhymned. e.g. Empty Chairs, Oh My What a Shame... Back in mid 70s, a friend introduced me to his songs and from then on Don's songs etched in my mind.

Awesome imagery/metaphors he uses like an artist on a canvas, painting us a surreal picture. One of the great American poets! Love his original stuff. Everybody Loves Me was a clever little tune that basically spells out American Foreign policy for the last 70+ years. Brilliant piece.

So many masterpieces by one same composer, who also happens to be a wonderful singer. Thanks for uploading his precious works for us all to enjoy amd divulge his work to the future generations.

A reverent hymn to Mother Nature...

Es increible, es hermoso..

While the song's message comes across as somewhat preachy, the imagery and metaphors that McLean comes up with here is really striking. I particularly liked his comparison of life to interwoven thread, and yolk in albumen to sunrises. Here's the full lyrics: 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 sulfur chimney and the black highway snake. Every dawn that breaks golden is held in suspension like the yolk 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 colorful tapestry, somehow they know. That if man is allowed to destroy all we need. He will soon have to pay with his life, for his greed.

His songs: 'Vincent','Tapestry' ,And I love you' are masterpieces no doubt have no comparison to other Artist and Don is extremally sensitive

Don Mclean's songs are so beautiful, are adore them =]

My favorite singer of all times, grat artist

men like don and cat stevens are sorely missing from the music of my generation. maybe it's mainstream media that supresses these types of artist today, or maybe my generation is incapable of deeper thought and feeling, i can't say. i can say it is a beautiful thing to have the internet, that i may find artist such as these, who through their song and words place a hand on my shoulder and comforts my sore heart saying the world IS wonderful, but all those dirty people.

you're welcome and thank you. music is truly the medicine of the soul, and were it not for a greivous lack of practitioners, the illnesses of our hearts would not want for treatment.

A Golden song!

Thanks you very much,and keep the good job,we all need this and more of this.

Such a beautiful song........

SOULFUL, INTENSE AND HAUNTING....

Prophetic and simultaneously beautiful and tragic.

Don McClean's album American Pie, had ALL much more beautiful songs on it. Such as this "Tapestry"....... the words are sheer poetry; wistful about this 21st century. Listen more than once; and one cannot but totally agree with what he has written and sings.

@darththc I am thankful for these true artists like Mclean, Stevens, Denver , Croce, Chapin and their contemporaries. This calibre of talent is almost extinct in the mainstream today. A lot to be said for someone who can sit on a stool with only a guitar and mesmerize an audience for a hour. Thank God for forums like KZfaq that remind of us such great musical genuis's.

Don McLean, Epic Wordsmith.

This song was on the Clearwater record in the early 70s, with Pete Seeger and others who cared about cleaning up the Hudson River in NY.

great artist

1971 and nothing has changed for the better take out of this what you want; but, the inevitable however probable or believable in your mind makes no difference whatever will happen will happen.

🖤🦋🖤

pure genius

Ahh come on I can't cry at every bloody song I hear, I'd never get anything done :-) Yeah its beautiful, strange though how a song can have different effects on different people.

#donmclean #yah #youarehired #internationalpeaceconcerts #gabormusic

Can't agree more with Tommy58photo that nobody write songs like Don does nowadays.

And I LOVE YOU SO.. XXX

Don was an original crew member of the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, launched in the late 60s.

Tapestry isn't on my UK version of the album "American Pie", but you are quite right, it IS full of beautiful Songs, like "Empty Chairs" & "Winterwood", "Vincent", "The Grave" etc. Also do find "Orphans of Wealth"

well this one " tapestry", because you know in your heart its true.... "Vincent" because the line "this world was never meant for one as beautiful as you" because thats true too.... and the third is "those were the days of our lives" by Queen because it was the end of one of the greatest talents in the world and I didn't want it to end. Or maybe I'm just too soft!?!?

@darththc As Ive been told: "I just want to listen to good music and not have to think"... I never enderstood this. Im into death metal, and hard punk, but damn, who could ever listen to music that didnt have feeling? Its art, the whole purpose of art is to envoke deeper thought and emotion, to unearth what is buried. I never understood when people said otherwise

For the 'record', I was introduced to this little masterpiece for the first time on Dons 'Best Of'--' CD EMI 'GOLD' c.2001. I'm guessing that he wrote it in the 70's, at the height of senseless ignorance about world polution.Over the decades, songs like this HAVE awakened people to the terrible state of air, rivers and shorelines etc, causing much new laws and legislation to improve our environment. Trouble is, the whole thing is at risk again from new industrialisation from China and India etc.

Rings true today.

It is World Environment Day today. This world we hold so carelessly, and take from without thought, will find a way to recover, but the human race will not.

I may be missing something here but this track is off the tapestry album

I dunno what album it's from. There's a version by "homelessbrother" on KZfaq, without the last verse, possibly too Severe for the college kids in his audience. And I found a full version on Spotify, some time ago.

it is so .don is usually profound.devapriya

@darththc Well stated!

@atfatw People are not water . A person spirits can be crushed by unkind uncaring callous comments from from a person who clearly only sees the world from their own vantage point . It must be a lonely place where one looks out and is able to label an entire generation of people through insensitive ,unsympathetic , eyes . Cruel indifference has it's own bitter reward in that one usually finds themselves surrounded by the kind of person who is often too willing to agree. Misery loves company .

Not sure about "Orphans of Wealth".........that one wasn't on the U.S. album of American Pie album. Sounds interesting. I'll check it out. Thanks!

So very relevant it should be the anthem of the world's climate protesters.

What about crossroads by don mclean?

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.

I hate to say it, but I believe both are true.

I meant.. I adore them* =] lol

There are still many singer songwriters out there in this current day. They are overlooked by the music industry at large as the industry mostly wants to cash in on pop culture, safest return of investment. I grew up listening to the likes of Don McLean, Gordon Lightfoot, etc. And to think that humans have completely changed in one generation is simply showing laziness. You were young when these singers were young and it was easy to find new music. But as we get older we get less curious.

what three psychopaths disliked this song and whats wrong with you

Great song but the sound is a bit distorted.

I like don and sex. They are niice

@atfatw If you want a generation to grow up incapable of feelings and deep thoughts I suppose the way to do that is to tell them how wretched and stupid they are . If you're not a part of the solution you are part of the problem .

Never thought a song about environmentalism would be able to not sound incredibly corny.

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