"Colors of the Wind" is a song written by lyricist Stephen Schwartz and composer Alan Menken for Walt Disney Pictures' 33rd animated feature film Pocahontas (1995). That was the first song I wrote with Stephen Schwartz—the Broadway prodigy who wrote Godspell and Pippin. A pop ballad, the song's lyrics contrast the priorities of European imperialism with values like respecting nature and living in harmony with the Earth's creatures. The earth is just a dead thing you can claim.
If the savage one is me. Come taste the sun sweet berries of the earth. And you've been so many places. How high does the sycamore grow? Or let the eagle tell you where he's been? You can paint with all the colors of the wind. You need to sing with all the voices of the mountain. You can own the earth and still all you'll own is earth until. But Vanessa Williams' cover of the song was released as the lead single from the film's soundtrack on March 23, 1995. The grand, slow elegance. It's a very serious song, but there was no getting humor into Pocahontas.
It's the film's theme song, originally recorded by Judy Kuhn in her role as the singing voice of Pocahontas. Strumming pattern: d-du-u-du. In a circle, in a hoop that never ends. Transpose chords: Chord diagrams: Pin chords to top while scrolling. Colors of the Wind (Soundtrack) Lyrics. Alan Menken, the composer said: It really is one of the most important songs I've ever written.
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Come run the hidden pine trails of the forest. Or asked the grinning bobcat why he grinned? But still, I cannot see. For whether we are white or copper-skinned. How can there be so much that you don't know? It was born out of the modality of Native American music, but it quickly moved to its own place, which is hard to define. In reality Natives of course have all the strengths and foibles of any other race. But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger. The rain storm and the river are my brothers.
And for once never wonder what they're worth. Are the people who look and think like you. All you'll own is earth until. He did a lot of research about American Indian folklore, and we listened to a lot of tribal music.