...but his Muppets will live on...

May 16, 1990 - days before I graduated from college - we lost Jim Henson. PBen over at DailyKos triggered my rememberence in a comment posted earlier today. Paul Williams wrote these lyrics to an amazing song - and Jim provided the voice...

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 chose 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

For pretty much everyone my age, the Muppets, and particularly Henson's Kermit and Rolf, occupy a precious space in our hearts. As Stephen Lynch says (in the only family-friendly lyric he ever wrote), "Jim Henson's dead and gone, but his Muppets will live on, and Kermit's still hot, cuz it's still not easy being green..."