It's Not Easy Being Green

The words say, “It’s not easy being green,” but the song is about knowing who you are. And in it you hear Jim’s message most clearly. He believed that people are good and that they want to do their best and that no matter how or why we might be different from anybody else, we should learn to love who we are and be proud of it.

It’s not that easy bein’ green
Having to spend each day the color of the leaves,
When I think it might be nicer being red, or yellow, or gold
Or something much more colorful like that

It’s not easy being’ green
It seems you belnd in with so many other ordinary things
And people tend to pass you over,
‘cause you’re not standing out like flashy sparkles on the water,
Or stars in the sky

But green is the color of spring
And green can be cool and friendly like
And green can be big like an ocean
Or important like a mountain
Or tall like a tree

When green is all there is to be,
It would make you wonder why.
But why wonder, why wonder?
I am green, and it’ll do fine
And I think it’s what I want to be

~ Kermit