“Rainbow” by Cage The Elephant

"Rainbow" comes off Neon Pill, Cage the Elephant's sixth studio album, and it's a love song with its eyes turned upward. Matt Shultz wrote it about his wife, who stood by him through all of the last couple of years, and he saw in her a reflection of God, of God as love; he describes it as a song about how love begins and keeps lifting you up. He believes it was the first song they wrote, and it's one of his favorites on the album.

John Hill produced and Manny Marroquin mixed, and Shultz shares the writing credit with Brad Shultz, Nick Bockrath, Jared Champion, Matthan Minster and Daniel Tichenor. It opens on drums before the guitars start strumming, and it became the band's 12th number one on the US Alternative Airplay chart and topped the Adult Alternative Airplay chart too.

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