A brass spyglass on a small rocky rise, pointing toward an orange sun at the distant horizon beneath a blue dusk sky.

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L. Frank Baum

Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high, there's a land that I heard of once in a lullaby.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker imagines a distant land through the memory of a lullaby. Placing it beyond the rainbow and high above gives that remembered place an unreachable quality. The lines connect longing with a story once heard, letting an imagined landscape stand apart from ordinary surroundings.

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