Candle on the Water

Candle on the Water is a song written by Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn from Walt Disney Picture's live action/animation film Pete's Dragon. It is sung by Helen Reddy, who plays Nora in the film, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song in 1977, though it lost to You Light Up My Life.

The setting for the song is entirely on the lantern room balcony of the lighthouse in which Nora and her father Lampey live. Nora sings the song to her fiancé Paul, who has been lost at sea for over a year but Nora believes will one day return. One evening, her father mocks her about this, and she retires to the lighthouse balcony to sing toward the ocean, assuring Paul that she is still waiting for him.

Candle on the Water has been sung on the DisneyMania 4 album by Anneliese van der Pol. It was also sung briefly by Kristin Chenoweth and an unidentified a capella group in the dramedy Pushing Daisies in the episode "The Legend of Merle McQuoddy".

Lyrics
I'll be your candle on the water,

My love for you will always burn,

I know you're lost and drifting,

But the clouds are lifting,

Don't give up you have somewhere to turn,

I'll be your candle on the water,

'Till ev'ry wave is warm and bright,

My soul is there beside you,

Let this candle guide you,

Soon you'll see a golden stream of light,

A cold and friendless tide has found you,

Don't let the stormy darkness pull you down,

I'll paint a ray of hope around you,

Circling in the air,

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