Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter
"The Old Revolution"
Songs from a Room (1969)
"A Moment to Myself" (co-written with Jeremy Ruzumna, Miles Tackett. Mark Morales, and Damon Wimbley)
On How Life Is (1999)
Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter
"The Old Revolution"
Songs from a Room (1969)
Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper
Variant: Love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow — beautiful while it’s there, and just as likely to have disappeared by the time you blink.
Source: My Sister's Keeper
“Our only kiss was like an accident- a beautiful gasoline rainbow.”
Alice Sebold book The Lovely Bones
Source: The Lovely Bones
Example (musician) (1982) English rapper and singer
"Come Taste the Rainbow" (song) <br class="br"> ("Come Taste the Rainbow" on YouTube (with lyrics)) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr1pq9-AYbM <br class="br">Studio albums, The Evolution of Man (2012)
“I pictured a rainbow
you held it in your hands
I had flashes
but you saw the plan”
Mike Scott (1958) songwriter, musician
"The Whole of the Moon" · Video at YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TON3PORRDQ <!-- Lower res link Video at Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsNTmjlf1vI --> <br class="br">This Is the Sea (1985) <br class="br">Context: I pictured a rainbow<br>you held it in your hands<br>I had flashes<br>but you saw the plan<br>I wandered out in the world for years<br>you just stayed in your room<br>I saw the crescent<br>You saw the whole of the moon.
“Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows,
Help us to see
That without the dust the rainbow
Would not be.”
Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist