rainbow_connection amy optimism with muppets absolutely. (three_words) 000113 ... unique butterfly that's the type of connection i seem to have with everybody. it can never be just one color. 010602 ... kelli crane hey, remember when we used to go to the Rainbow to meet our connection? 020115 ... sabbie someday we'll find it... the lovers, the dreamers and me. i can still see kermit sitting in a swampy pond singing that. 020115 ... Sailor Jupiter All of us under it's spell you know it's probably maaaaagic! 020116 ... blown cherry Why are there so many songs about rainbows? And what's on the other side? Rainbows are visions, only illusions, and rainbows have nothing to hide... 020208 ... Rhin there are no rainbows. there is nothing to connect. 020208 ... lycanthrope there are rainbows...and in our minds...which do such things...they are implicit half circles...our mind need only connect them. I've seen a whole rainbow. Who said that every wish would be heard and answered when wished on the morning star, somebody thought of that and someone believed it, look what it's got us so far. What's so amazing that keeps us star-gazing and what do we think we might see? Someday we'll find it the rainbow connection, the lovers, the dreamers and me... anyone who wants this sung to them, call me up, i do a great kermit impression and i know all the words. Everytime i hear this song i cry. Everytime. Okay...not once but i was really tired. And i tried, i really tried. I even punched myself repeatedly in the groin admonishing myself the whole while...look at him....he's so honest...show some emotion...he's suffering out there for you like jesus on the cross...the least you can do is admit your own starry eyed dreaming, the least you can do is take off your thick cynical coat and stay a while. That kermit showed his own vulnerability so we wouldn't be resentful of ours and how necessary it is, even when we want it to be a fantasy. Someday we'll find it, the rainbow connection, the lovers, the dreamers and me. 020324 ... Rhin from now on we live in a world where man has spied a whole rainbow. it's not a miracle. we just decided to connect the fucking dots. 020324 ... Rhin sorry lycanthrope. it's not you. it's me. i'm just... it's just easier not to believe, you know? 020324 ... misstree lycanthrope, just the thought of having a (relative) stranger stinging that song to me brought tears to my eyes... we learned how to sing this in sign language in kindergarten... always been one of my favorite songs... and you're right, even the most bitter and hardened need to snuggle with a muppet sometimes, before they turn into toxic stone. 020324 ... lycanthrope i understand rhin...all i'm saying...is that....in a world where disillusion is often the last illusion, sometimes not believing is as much as a leap of faith as believing...in any given thing...no need to be specific. And yeah...so i connected a few rainbows in my mind, it keeps me busy. 020324 ... lycanthrope and misstree someday we'll find it, the rainbow connection. It's its vagueness that allows for such beauty, we know it's out there and we know it's benign, and we never know what it is, we could be looking at it already and calling it something else. The rainbow connection is a lot like the Tao...or the theory of everything to borrow a phrase from the illustrious stephen_hawking. 020324 ... KindreDSpirit One of my life philosophies comes from this song. But it's the part everybody always forgets about, because it's at the veeeeery end of the movie in the little reprise-thingie. You know, after Gonzo inadvertently destroys the movie studio but before Sweetums crashes through the screen and interrupts the viewing of the movie...when the rainbow comes through the gaping hole in the roof? Anyway. *ahem* "Life's like a movie, write your own ending, keep believing, keep pretending..." I love that. That, and all things muppet. 020410 ... Trickster721 Have you been half asleep, and have you heard voices? I've heard them calling my name Jim Henson just rocks in every way. Rainbow Connection dosn't make me cry anymore because I listen to it so much, but "it's not that easy being green" still does. Also, Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies' punk cover of Rainbow Connection rocks too. 040311 ... kookaburra THIS SONG IS THE MOST AMAZINGNESS EVER!!!!! the second most amazingness is mad world from donnie darko but seriously, this song is so touching... 040504 ... mous this is beautiful...but for something truly heartwrenching, listen to "I'm going to go back there someday" from the same movie albumn. 040504 what's it to you? who go blather from