As a 30 year old male former Marine, unashamedly, this song makes me cry. Am I overemotional? Is it nostalgia, sadness for the lyrics, powerful sounds, or all of it together? I wonder.
I am such a hateful person, I want to do such unspeakable things but, I admit after hearing this again I can not be hateful. I understand you fully. You are not less a man for feeling this way american.
Judy Kuhn is so underrated. She MADE this song No matter how beautiful Alan's music or Stephen's lyrics, if you don't have a good vocalist, your song won't stand a chance Just giving credit where credit is due, to a lovely lady with the magic voice
Yes! Major goosebumps all over my body!! Such an incredible feeling!! It’s a song about how we are all connected to the trees, the wind, the animals, we must listen to this song and follow it! Teach it to our children
i bought the cassette in 1999. now i am 39 and came back to reflect it since my daughter love it. p.s. this "color of wind" is in the mid of album. the actual end title version "color of wind" is by Vanissa. banned here. but you can still find it in ytb
Really?!? That's awesome! There were other movies released in 1995 like Toy Story, Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home, and Batman Forever!
I had this song stuck in my head and decided to look it up... I miss my childhood, I'd do anything to put on oversized shoes, and a princess dress, running around the living room giggling with my dad chasing. Even though I now know he always let me win. O my gosh, i want that back so bad, mommy and daddy and family, and my castle 1 million feet tall. A pool that was my ocean. A mermaid, that's it, what I miss. Never wanting to comet the surface. Not getting yelled at for a messy room. I miss th
When I was a kid, I thought she was saying "whether we are white, or *proper* skinned". It always seemed like such a strange and uncomfortable line to give the protagonist, until I realised she was saying *copper* skinned. That makes so much more sense.
I have fond memories of this song as a kid. Going to a caravan park and singing for my family when I was likely 5 or something like that. It always brings a smile to my face.
so many years have passed since i last heard this song as a child and i still remember it verbatim. i sang this song more than i did songs from other disney films. and trust me, watching disney films as a child WAS my life.
Historically innaccurate or not, for me Pocahontas is still the ultimate Disney princess: she conjured the power/beauty of nature, and that's everything
I'm like half-persian and you know what? For a long time, people have mistaken people like me for terrorists. Well, some of us Christians mistaken that we aren't Christians and are Muslim. But at my Christian church, we sing hymns with so much passion we are reduced to tears in the end; we worship our own God the same way we do. Our food and culture(even though I my family doesn't practice most of it) is also exemplary if people gave a chance. Not all of us are evil.
@yaysonic Actually, Simba only had a few friends that he would eat, and they basically raised him. Lion cubs who are raised by people wouldn't eat them either. So that's not as big of a stretch as you'd think. Remember a tiger once adopted piglets. This however historically inaccurate, does show a good sense of the interactions of the English and Native Americans. Honestly the only major inaccuracy is Pocahontas's age and romantic attachment to John. She did save his life from execution.
Disney knew this song was so good that it alone was the trailer for the movie. I used to pop in the Lion King VHS, and when that trailer would come up, I'd just let the entire song play out before fast forwarding the rest of the commercials...
@DDDB13 she was I think anywhere between 9 and 12. She was not romantically involved with him. She did however save his life in the same way she did in the movie. Historically she married John Rolf like in the sequel.
the government should hear this. they should feel like shit about how we treat people that are SUPPOSEDLY so different from us when they hear this song.
Pocahontas's physical appearance 1.Tall 2.Slender 3.Beautiful 4.Practically Naked 5.Long beautiful elegant black hair that goes down to her butt 6.Extremely tan skin 7.Brown eyes 8.Ruby red lips 9.Off the shoulder yellow Native American dress that goes down to her knees 10.Bright blue Native American necklace 11.Red Native tattoo on her right bicep 12.Commando/No underwear 13.Barefeet
one of the forgotten princesses in my opinion. Pocahontas deserves much more marketing than she receives. Disney you should give her more attention!!! She is an awesome princess.
In these songs she basically overcomes racism saying “Only people who are people that think and look like you” and the “Copper or white skin” and teaches him of her culture and beliefs
When I have children I will raise them on Disney movies like Bambi, Pocahontas, The Aristrocats, ect, ect and audio book classics such as Tolkeins work and C.S. Lewis' and others. They'll know the real meaning of a 'classic'.
You think I'm an ignorant savage And you've been so many places I guess it must be so But still I cannot see If the savage one is me How can there be so much that you don't know You don't know You think you own whatever land you land on The Earth is just a dead thing you can claim But I know every rock and tree and creature Has a life, has a spirit, has a name You think the only people who are people Are the people who look and think like you But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger You'll learn things you never knew, you never knew Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon Or asked the grinning bobcat why he grinned Can you sing with all the voices of the mountains Can you paint with all the colors of the wind Can you paint with all the colors of the wind Come run the hidden pine trails of the forest Come taste the sun sweet berries of the Earth Come roll in all the riches all around you And for once, never wonder what they're worth The rainstorm and the river are my brothers The heron and the otter are my friends And we are all connected to each other In a circle, in a hoop that never ends How high will the sycamore grow If you cut it down, then you'll never know And you'll never hear the wolf cry to the blue corn moon For whether we are white or copper skinned We need to sing with all the voices of the mountains We need to paint with all the colors of the wind You can own the Earth and still All you'll own is Earth until You can paint with all the colors of the wind
I was 7 years old and I never forget when I saw Pocahontas Trailer in my VHS's The Lion King, Oh my lord! This track makes me feel emotional and tears down.
