Paul Williams, who turns 84 today, is one of my favorite songwriters. His lyrics are deceptively simple, sometimes nearly childlike, but his songs invariably get to the heart of the human condition. Forthwith, one of my favorite lyrics (and there are so many to choose from!):
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\nWhy are there so many songs about rainbows
\nAnd what’s on the other side?
\nRainbows are visions, but only illusions,
\nAnd rainbows have nothing to hide.
\nSo we’ve been told and some choose to believe it
\nI know they’re wrong, wait and see.
\nSomeday we’ll find it, the rainbow connection,
\nThe lovers, the dreamers and me.
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Paul Williams, who turns 84 today, is one of my favorite songwriters. His lyrics are deceptively simple, sometimes nearly childlike, but his songs invariably get to the heart of the human condition. Forthwith, one of my favorite lyrics (and there are so many to choose from!): Why are there so many songs about rainbows And … Continue reading “Happy Birthday Paul Williams”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26818"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26819,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26818\/revisions\/26819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}