Legacy
Carole King

You used to be as a child
Full of hope and wonder
Hey, now, do you remember those days
Your mind was free and running wild
Now the sound of thunder
Has got you trapped in a corner hiding out
You're running in a rat maze

You better think about the legacy
That you want to leave behind
It's all getting burnt-out, used-up
Bought and sold to the bottom line
That ain't the way it's gotta be
You can leave a better world than you find
You can look down, turn aside, run away
But you can't put it out of your mind
'Cause it's your legacy

Don't it make your heart bleed
Passing through the meadowland
Wheel of fortune jackpot is what it looks like
That's okay, go on, run your motor at high speed
Rev it up to five grand
Shades on, top down
But as you barrel down the turnpike

You better think about the legacy
That you're gonna leave behind
Things are getting wasted out of hand
People stealing each other blind
Hey, that ain't the way it oughta be
You can leave a better world than you find
You can look down, turn around, run away
But you can't put it out of your mind
'Cause it's your legacy

It isn't easy when you think your voice
Doesn't matter to anyone
Maybe you believe there's nothing you can do
But if you just do nothing, you've made a choice
To perpetuate the destruction
Why don't you stand up, dig in
When it all comes down, it's gotta begin with you
It's you
It's your legacy
Baby, whatcha gonna do about it

You better think about the legacy
That you want to leave behind
Things are getting wasted, out-of-hand, burnt-out, used-up
Sold to the bottom line
Hey, that ain't the way it's gotta be
Oh, don't you want to leave a better world than you find
You can look down, turn aside, run away and hide
But you can't put it out of your mind
'Cause it's your legacy
Oh, your legacy

Look here
It's gotta start somewhere, Jack
If you don't go forward, you're gonna go back
Hey, you better get a plan of attack
'Cause that's the only way that you're gonna keep track
Of your legacy


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  "Change In Mind, Change Of Heart"   (Love Is Like A) Boomerang   (You make Feel Like) A Natural Woman   (You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Woman   (You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Woman [5.1 Dolb...   (You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Woman (Live)   (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman   (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman [*]   (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman [Live]   (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman [Live][*]   (You Make Me Feel) Like a Natural Woman   A Night This Side of Dying   A Fine Way To Go   A Natural Woman   A Natural Woman (You Make Me Feel Like)   A Night This Side Of Dying   A Quiet Place to Live   A Road To Nowhere   After All This Time   Ain't That The Way   Ain't That The Way   Alabaster Lady   Alligators All Around   Alone At All   Ambrosia   An Uncommon Love   Another Night With the Boys [#]   Anyone At All   At The Club   At This Time In My Life   At This Time in My Life [#]   Avenue P   Ayone At All   Back To California   Ballad Of Chicken Soup   Ballad Of Chicken Soup (The)   Beautiful   Beautiful (Live)   Beautiful [DVD]   Beautiful As You Feel   Been To Canaan   Been to Canaan [DVD]   Been To Cannan   Being at War With Each Other   Believe In Humanity   Believe in Humanity [Live][#]   Best Is Yet to Come   Birthday Song   Bitter With The Sweet   Blossom   Boomerang [#]   Breaking Up Is Hard to Do   Brighter   Brother Brother   Brother, Brother   Can't You Be Real   Can't You Be Real   Carol of the Bells   Carolina in My Mind   Carry Your Load   Carry Your Load [*]   Chains   Chains (Live)   Chains [DVD]   Chains and Things   Chalice Borealis   Change In Mind, Change Of Heart   Changes   Chanukah Prayer   Chicken Soup With Rice   Child Of Mine   Christmas In The Air   Christmas Paradise   City Streets   Colour Of Your Dreams   Come Down Easy   Computer Eyes   Coraz\u00c3\u00b3n   Corazón   Corazon   Country Road   Country Road   Crazy   Crying In The Rain   Dancin' With Tears   Dancin' With Tears In My Eyes   Dancing   Dancing With Tears In My Eyes   Daughter Of Life   Daughter Of Light   Directions   Disappointed [#]   Disco Tech   Do You Feel Love   Do You Hear What I Hear   Down To The Darkness   Dreamlike I Wander   Eagle   Eventually   Eventually (Live)   Eventually [Live]   Eventually [Live][*]   Every Day Will Be Like A Holiday   Everybody's Got The Spirit   Everybody's Got The Spirit   Everyday Will Be Like a Holiday   Fantasy (Beginning)   Fantasy Beginning   Fantasy End   Feel Like A Natural Woman   Feeling Sad Tonight   Ferguson Road   Fire and Rain   Friday's Tie-Dye Nightmare   Friday's Tie-Dye Nightmare   Go Away Little Girl   Goat Annie   God Only Knows   Goin' Back   Going Back   Golden Man   Good Mountain People   Goodbye Don't Mean I'm Gone   Goodbye, Don't Mean I'm Gone   Goodbye, Don't Mean I'm Gone   Gotta Get Through Another Day   Growing Away From Me   Hard Rock Café [DVD]   Hard Rock Cafe   Hard Rock Cafe (Live)   Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas   Haywood   He's A Bad Boy   He's A Bad Boy   Help Me Make It Through the Night   Hey Girl   Hi De Ho   Hi-De-Ho (By The City)   Hi-De-Ho (That Old Sweet Roll)   High Out Of Time   Hold On   Hold Out For Love   Home Again   Home Again [Piano-Voice Version]   Homeless Heart   How Many Tears [#]   I Can't Hear You No More   I Can't Stop Thinking About You   I Can't Hear You No More   I Can't Stop Thinking About You   I Don't Know   I Don't Know   I Feel The Earth Move   I Feel The Earth Move (Live)   I Feel the Earth Move [DVD]   I Feel the Earth Move [Live]   I Feel the Earth Move [Piano-Voice Version]   I Fell The Earth Move   I Think I Can Hear You   I Wasn't Gonna Fall in Love   I Wasn't Gonna Fall In Love   I'd Like To Know You Better   I'm Into Something Good   I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm   I'd Like To Know You Better   I'm Into Something Good   In The Name Of Love   It Could Have Been Anyone   It Might As Well Rain Until September   It Started All Over Again   It's A War   It's Going To Take Some Time   It's Going to Take Sometime   It's Gonna Work Out Fine   It's Never Too Late   It's To Late   It's Too Late   It's A War   It's Going To Take Some Time   It's Gonna Work Out Fine   It's Never Too Late   It's To Late   It's Too Late   Its Too Late   Jazzman   Jazzman (Live)   Just Once In My Life   Just One Thing   Keep Your Love Locked Deep In Your Heart   Labyrinth   Lay Down My Life   Lay Down My Life [Radio Edit]   Life Without Love   Like Little Children   Little Prince   Locomotion   Locomotion (Live)   Locomotion [DVD]   Lookin' Out For Number One   Looking Out For Number One   Love For Christmas   Love For The Last Time   Love Makes the World   Lovelight   Loving You Forever   Loving You Forever (w\/gary Burr)   Machine Gun Kelly   Main Street Saturday Night   Make the Night a Little Longer   Man On My Mind   Medley (Take Good Care Of My Baby)   Medley: Will You Love Me Tomorrow \/ Some Kind Of ...   Midnight Flyer   Monday Without You   Morning Sun   Move Lightly   Music   My Favorite Things   My Lovin' Eyes   My Lovin' Eyes   My My She Cries   My Simple Humble Neighborhood   Natural Woman   Natural Woman (Live)   New Year's Day   Night This Side of Dying   Nightingale   No Easy Way Down   Now And Forever   Oh Neil   Oh No Not My Baby   Oh No, Not My Baby   Oh! Neil   On The First Day In August   One   One Fine Day   One Small Voice   One To One   One Was Johnny   Only Love Is Real   Out In The Cold   Out in the Cold [*]   Out in the Cold [#]   Out in the Cold [#][*]   Out in the Cold [Live]   Passing Of The Days   Peace In The Valley   Pierre   Pleasant Valley Sunday   Pleasant Valley Sunday [DVD]   Pocket Money   Quiet Place To Live   Raspberry Jam   Read Between The Lines   Really Rosie   Really Rosie - Reprise   Really Rosie (Original Piano Demo)   Really Rosie (Reprise)   Ride The Music   Rooftops   Sacred Heart Of Stone   Safe Again   Screaming And Yelling   Seeing Red   Simple Things   Sleigh Ride   Smackwater Jack   Smackwater Jack [DVD]   Smackwater Jack [Live]   Smackwater Jack [Live][*]   Smackwater Jack [Live][#]   Smackwater Jack [Live][#][*]   Smackwater Jack [Piano-Voice Version]   Snow Queen   So Far Away   So Far Away (Live)   So Far Away [DVD]   So Far Away [Live]   So Far Away [Piano-Voice Version]   So Goes Love   So Many Ways   So Many Ways [Alternate Take] [Alternate Take]   So Ready For Love   Some Kind Of Wonderful   Someone Who Believes In You   Someone You Never Met Before   Something in the Way She Moves   Something in the Way She Moves   Song Of Long Ago   Spaceship Races   Speeding Time   Stand Behind Me   Standin' On The Borderline   Standing In The Rain   Standing On The Borderline   Still Here Thinking Of You   Such Sufferin'   Such Sufferin'   Sunbird   Surely   Sweet Adonis   Sweet Baby James   Sweet Life   Sweet Seasons   Sweet Sweetheart   Take Good Care Of My Baby   Take Good Care of My Baby [#]   Take Good Care of My Baby [Demo Version]   Take Good Care of My Baby [Original Demo]   Tapestry   Tapestry [Piano-Voice Version]   Te Daria La Vida (Amor)   Tears Falling Down On Me   That's How Things Go Down   That's How Things Go Down   The Awful Truth   The Ballad Of Chicken Soup   The Best Is Yet to Come   The First Day In August   The Loco-Motion   The Reason   There's A Space Between Us   There's A Space Between Us   This Christmas   This Time   Ties That Bind   Ties That Bind [*]   Ties That Bind [#]   Time Alone   Time Gone By   To Know That I Love You   To Love   To Love [Alternate Take]   Too Much Rain   Two Hearts   Two Hearts [*]   Up On The Roof   Up On The Roof (Live)   Venusian Diamond   Walk With Me   Walk With Me (I'll Be Your Companion)   Walk With Me (I'll Be Your Companion)   Wasn't Born To Follow   Wasn't Born To Follow   Way over Yonder   Way Over Yonder [Piano-Voice Version]   We All Have To Be Alone   We Are All In This Together   Weekdays   Welcome Home   Welcome To My Living Room   Welfare Symphony   What Have You Got To Lose   Where You Lead   Where You Lead (Gilmore Girls version)   Where You Lead (Gilmore Girls)   Where You Lead I Will Follow   Where You Lead I Will Follow (w\/louise Goffin)   Where You Lead, I Will Follow   Where You Lead, I Will Follow [*]   Where You Lead, I Will Follow [DVD]   Will You Love Me Tomorrow   Will You Love Me Tomorrow?   Will You Love Me Tomorrow?/Some Kind of Wonderful/...   Will You Love Me Tomorrow\/Some Kind Of Wonderful\...   Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow   Wings Of Love   Wishful Thinking   Wrap Around Joy   You Can Close Your Eyes   You Can Close Your Eyes   You Can Do Anything   You Gentle Me   You Go Your Way, I'll Go Mine   You Go Your Way, I'll Go Mine   You Light Up My Life   You Still Want Her   You Will Find Me There   You're Something New   You're The One Who Knows   You've Been Around Too Long   You've Got A Friend   Yours Until Tomorrow

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