Video #2. RULE #8, you are NOT ALLOWED to watch my videos. Rule #3, you are NOT ALLOWED to read the video description. Unlock the secret of the rainbow connection.

Copyright 1979-07-31 Henson Associates, Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED! (SR0000010909). Derived from sheet music magazine Jan 1982. In 2018, I adapted the music so it sounded good to me, made syncopated, split vocals/piano, transcribed to Finale (https://bit.ly/3vu5coP). Was the first time I did this process which makes the song meaningful to me.

Lyrics Analysis

The central question of the song is the question "Why are there so many songs about rainbows?". Visually a rainbow is a vision, an illusion, and has no trickery about it. The speaker has heard there is a connection there, and the speaker knows others believe the connection exists. The speaker doesn't think the interpretation he's heard makes sense, but he thinks he (and others) will figure it out some day.

A related phenomenon is the idea that morning stars are capable of granting wishes. Someone had to be the first to think of that idea, and that idea was spread around from person to person and generation to generation. The speaker observes that the concept of wishing upon morning stars has been productive, but the speaker does not understand why people go stargazing or what they get out of it.

However, the speaker does feel SOMETHING related to rainbows, and presumes others can feel that too. His best guess is it's magic but is not certain. One manifestation of this phenomenon is hearing voices in one's head in a semiawake state. The feeling is analogized to a song heard by sailors (maybe the temptation song of the siren: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siren_(mythology)). The speaker has felt this feeling a lot and feels it's an intrisic part of who he is, but he's only willing to say that someday we'll figure it out. The speaker separates himself from lovers and dreamers, indicating it's a categorization relevant to the question.

My answer is it is the psychological concept of apophenia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia). People make connections between rainbows/stars and other entities because of the natural human tendency to perceive meaningful connections between unrelated things. The emotion of wonder (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonder_(emotion)) is also an explanation, but I don't like that as a full explanation because not everyone has that level of emotional range. My interpretation is the lovers and the dreamers can feel wonder, but the speaker cannot. But I feel like everybody could feel apophenia if they try. And apophenia is where many of the ideas in this channel come from.

Other

I comprehend video art better with subtitles. I feel educational channels could use an option to force subtitles on. I use Adobe Premiere Pro (though expensive), add ghetto subtitles which goes pretty fast, and there's stuff that can be done with that that can't be done with traditional subtitles.

My son came up with the source for the Jeff Bezos line in a story he wrote. It's a mash-up of the "If I had a dollar" and "richer than Jeff Bezos" memes, but I couldn't find that one on the Internet, the closest I came was looking at https://upjoke.com/jeff-bezos-jokes. I certainly want to strangle my son sometimes, but the worst I've ever done is handle him more roughly than I needed to when he was kicking and screaming, and sometimes I feel guilty about even that. I like having him around if he feeds me quality material.

Inspiration for the "You liked the video" line came from the Sesame Street children's book "The Monster at the End of the Book", where Grover tries in vain to prevent the reader from getting to the end of the book.

Sad note, this afternoon I was practicing the skit too loud which caused my mother's dog Indie (who hates me with the heat of a thousand suns) who was outside to start barking. Later my mother noticed some tire treads on the street and pointed me to the road, where I found a dead raccoon. My guess is the practicing caused the barking scared the raccoon into the road and goodnight raccoon. I checked the next day and the raccoon was still there, so it wasn't a hallucination. I don't know whether my logic is apophenia, a reminder that actions have consequences, a reminder everyone makes mistakes, a necessary sacrifice, or the raccoon died for my sins. All I know is say a prayer because this video killed a raccoon, and because of that I toned down the anger a bit for this video.

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