The Rainbow Connection
In 1979 I was in 9th grade, the year Kermit made popular the song The Rainbow Connection from The Muppet Movie. I immediately fell in love with the song. It is one of those songs that gave me hope – that someday I would find what I was looking for.
1979 was a year filled with much turmoil in my life, I ended up failing some of my classes that year and ended up being held back in some areas, advanced in others. So by the time I was supposed to be in 10th grade, I was actually a 9/10 split, taking 9th grade & 10th grade english & social studies, all in the same year so in the end I was able to graduate with my own class in 1983.
There is a picture in my jr. high school yearbook of me for that year that says: Heidi The Daydreamer who wanders through life thinking about such things as macho men, her future and whether she will pass. – How accurately they described someone they really didn’t know at all.
I am the lover and the dreamer who believes that someday I’ll find it, the rainbow connection and sometimes I think I have found it, when I think of my children and the joy they have brought to my life..
Have you found your Rainbow Connection?
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.