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Stumbled upon a video about The Rainbow Connection from The Muppet Movie.

This song is complicated for me.

From way back--I was a kid when the movie came out, saw it in the theatre--it moved me. I've since developed a thing for Paul Williams's music, dude was a flippin' GENIUS. But it was something else, something more, deeper.

And then around ten years ago, I was seeing a girl who meant a lot to me, and she wanted to get into vinyl (not like that!). I had already bought a record player I was going to give to her, but had to give her an album or two to go with it, and kept my eyes open. Then I saw it--a vinyl LP of that movie's soundtrack, and I knew she was a fan, too, though it had come along much before her time.

She was in tears when she opened the gift. But we broke up not too long after, and I never listened to it with her. So the song grabs my heart in a couple of different ways now. Still undeniably powerful, though. Simple, quiet, but very deep.

Here it is, if you can follow a link to YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS3Lkc6Gzlk