Muppet Movie - The Rainbow Connection

"The Rainbow Connection" was written for The Muppet Movie and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song in 1979. It is sung by Kermit as the movie's opening number and reprised by the whole cast of Muppets at the end of the movie. The single of this song reached #25 on Billboard's "Hot 100 Singles" chart in 1979.

Why are there so many songs about rainbows and what's on the other side?
Rainbows are visions, but only illusions, and rainbows have nothing to hide.
So we've been told and some choose to believe it.
I know they're wrong wait and see.

Someday we'll find it, the rainbow connection.
The lovers, the dreamers and me.
Who said that wishes would be heard and answered when wished on the morningstar?

Someone thought of that and someone believed it.
Look what it's done so far.
What's so amazing that keeps us stargazing and what do we think we might see?

Someday we'll find it, the rainbow connection.
The lovers, the dreamers and me.
All of us under its spell.
We know that it's probably magic.
Have you been half asleep and have you heard voices?
I've heard them calling my name.

Is this the sweet sound that calls the young sailors.
The voice might be one and the same.

I've heard it too many times to ignore it.
It's something that I'm supposed to be.

Someday we'll find it, the rainbow connection, the lovers, the dreamers and me.
Someday we'll find it, the rainbow connection, the lovers, the dreamers and me.

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[meisterly]

He sure has a throat in his frog

[Guy. N Cognito]

Jim Henson died 23 years ago today. What a sad state of affairs the world is in where people like Dick Cheney and Donald Trump can manage to cling to life through a black cloak of greed, money, and power, while a man who brought color to the entire world died in his fifties.

But as long as we keep stargazing, his spirit will live on. Someday maybe we will find a better world.

[keith brown]

Really I don't think you could be more wrong but to each his or her own

[fjccommish]

The song isn't about a better time in the past. It's about now.

[fjccommish]

You mean people like Barack Obama, using his official powers to attack his political critics.

[linnjgurtner]

OXXX

[keith brown]

What a great song and memory of a better time. Thank you Jim Hensen

[LDarklightL]

"Have you been half asleep and have you heard voices?

I've heard them calling my name."

Hmm.. cute lil psycho Kermit

[Jenzel Ria]

I'm not sure if Gustov would have liked to be referred as an Atheist. The frog I have in my swamp has a shot gun, to discouragement any visitors.

[Amy Leroux]

Hahaha, that's cool. :)

[Jen Pearson]

Yep.

[DigitalMoonstone]

I feel like Kermit's an Atheist when I here this song...