Lyrics When the last eagle flies over the last crumbling mountain And the last lion roars at the last dusty fountain In the shadow of the forest though she may be old and worn They will stare unbelieving at the last unicorn When the first breath of winter through the flowers is icing And you look to the north and a pale moon is rising And it seems like all is dying and would leave the world to mourn In the distance hear the laughter of the last unicorn I'm alive, I'm alive When the last moon is cast over the last star of morning And the future has passed without even a last desperate warning Then look into the sky where through the clouds a path is torn Look and see her how she sparkles, it's the last unicorn I'm alive, I'm alive

Although the ending is generally a good one, I feel so bad and sad for the unicorn. It's a pretty deep concept for a kids' animation. Even though she found the other unicorns, she now cannot unlearn human emotions such as regret and romantic love as a unicorn who naturally cannot live with humans. It's so nostalgic to watch a film from my childhood.

WHen you know that HALF the animators who worked on this, then founded Studio Ghibli, you know why the animation is lit af.

My parents took me to see this movie when it came out, when I was only 6 years old. I was a very sensitive child, and I burst into tears at the end because I thought it was so sad. I remember I couldn’t stop crying even when the lights came on, and a nice older lady walked by and said something kind to me about how she thought it was sad too. I was embarrassed but also amazed at the power of a story. I still loved unicorns for years after that. Every time I found myself in a wooded area, I kept hoping I would come upon a unicorn in a clearing. I was convinced there had to be one somewhere. Funnily enough, it seemed like my wish finally came true a couple of months ago at age 46, when I suddenly came upon a beautiful albino deer in the woods. The little girl inside me felt like I’d finally found my unicorn!

Some movies from childhood are not the same when you watch them as an adult - except this one. It is just as moving. Just as melancholy. Means just as much, if not more to me than it did then. Especially since my sister, my best friend, my partner in crime, died so young. This movie was a foreshadowing of our lives and it is everything to me. Even my sister's grave has a horse rearing up engraved on her tombstone.

That last "I'm Alive! I'm ALIIIIVEE!" gets me in tears every single time.

THIS IS ART. Really takes me back to the first time I saw this film. The nostalgia is real. 🖤

I teach "The Last Unicorn" in my middle school reading/writing class. The movie is quite faithful to the original text, which is a refreshing contrast to the way adaptations are usually handled. Peter Beagle wrote an absolute masterpiece of young people's literature with this one - you can find the full text online by adding "PDF" to the title. Every chapter is full of vivid, evocative metaphors and similes, lyrical prose and surprisingly sophisticated themes such as the loss of innocence, the nature of knowledge/understanding, the way experience educates us but also hardens our perspectives into bias and unwarranted certainty... I could go on. When I finally show the movie to let students "compare/contrast" with the text, I'm always afraid some of the older kids will make fun of the songs as too precious or earnest. It never happens. They are invariably transported and suspend any hint of disbelief. America absolutely slayed this soundtrack!

This movie has more meaning than anyone could possibly hope to understand for me...

This song and its theme of the last unicorn is so full of mystical magic and sorrow. The last noble creature watching the world die.

I'm 43 now, but will forever remember this movie.

My mother took me to see this in the movie theater in 1982, I was 7 years old. It haunted and saddened me then, and I quickly forgot about it and never thought of it again, until today, I'm 46. I have no idea what triggered my recall of it. I came here looking for better answers but all I find is the overwhelming sense of loss I felt then. It is the same loss I felt at age 31 when I became the oldest living male member of my immediate family. And now I'm slightly haunted by it again...

I'm turning 17 years old now, me and my father watched this movie daily when I was really young. He's missed some important years when my parents split, I can't wait for us to sit down and watch this movie again next time I visit

I am grown man but I cry every time I hear this song....

This is my child movie, that I'll never forget. And I always love this song

Am I the only one who cries when I hear the "I'm alive, I'm alive" lyrics😭

Rest in Peace American director, producer, composer, lyricist, and author Jules Bass (September 16, 1935 - October 25, 2022), who co-founded Rankin/Bass Productions, with his friend, Arthur Rankin Jr. (July 19, 1924 - January 30, 2014). A truly animation legends!!

The feeling of sadness and nostalgia in this song is pretty damn beautiful.

I loved how they maintained that style from The Hobbit, but it was even more refined. It's like the next level to that art style. This is still even great animation by today's standards. The amount of work must have been immense to pull this movie off. Animation was much more pains taking then because it was all handcrafted. This movie was quite an achievement.

My sister passed away on December 28th, 2021. Unicorns were her favorite animal as a child and this was arguably one of her favorite films. I remember enjoying it for all the fantasy but feeling a deep sense of sorrow and pain that I didn't understand until later in life. When I hear this song now I will always think of my sister and although it feels like the end of the world right now, I know that she's "alive" in the memories we created together and the lessons she taught me in life.

I came to this film relatively late. I was 22 when I saw it for the first time, never having heard of it before. But the moment the film started I was utterly enchanted; and it was so emotional and deep and melancholic it struck a chord way way down. It made me feel like that child we all once were when we all believed that such things as dragons and unicorns might be real. The scene with Molly Grue demanding where the unicorn has been all her life hit me hardest, especially as an adult. Such a great film, such a great book, and this song is just amazing.

I'm 40 years old. This is the first story that ever captured my heart. Before superheroes, before Star Wars, there was the Last Unicorn I lost my son when he was 3 days old. We played this song at his funeral. He would have been 10 years old this July 11th. I got to tell this to Peter S. Beagle. He is the most genuine man I've ever met, So let the pain come. I can hear the laughter of the last unicorn.

I was 4 years old when I picked out a tape of this movie from the library one day...... It's been one of my favorite movies since then even though after we brought it back I didn't get another chance to watch it until someone gave me the DVD for my 8th birthday, it's been 11 years since I first saw it and I still love the movie just as much. I recently got the book too.

I will forever be grateful for the Rankin bass "fantasy movement", those movies shaped me

i have this unicorn as my tattoo when my artist was doing it she asked everyone who came in have you seen the last unicorn :)

You know something I noticed while watching this? The backgrounds in the movie go from simple but beautiful, abstract but understandable in her forest to the realistic paintings of the outside world. It really does hammer in the idea of the gritty, complex world out there, different from how the Unicorn lived before, and how she originally saw the world

Reminds me of my departed mother and my lost sister. Takes me back to every Friday night when they would watch it together. Now I'm the last that remembers.

How can a song be this beautiful? 🎸❤🎸❤🎶

I remember when I first saw this movie at the age of 8 or 9 I was scared of the bull but I couldn't stop watching it💞

This movie has brought tears to my eyes ever since the first time I watched it. The beauty is immeasurable. And now, at my factory job, I replay the songs of America and scenes in this movie through my head to get me through the monotonous day.

There's something in this song that you can't even describe, amazing movie and song

"And it seems like all is dying and will leave the world to mourn, in the distance hear her laughter" I love these lyrics!

As a Molly this movie is life. I came here after my husband let me know they are doing a live action remake of this movie. I am a 33yr old woman but my husband knows how much this movie means to me. I remember asking to watch it everytime I stayed with my maw maw's. To this day it is one I can watch over and over again. I was a book nerd as a kid and only have two movies that i truly love. This one and Anne of Green Gables. The fact they are willing to mess with perfection after messing up so many mediocre films makes me want to cry. There are to many people who do not know this amazing movie that will learn to associate it with whatever live action trash they create.

I love that film so much.

This movie looks even more beautiful now than it did when I was a kid. That animation! Those backgrounds!

I’m 18 and this was one of my favourite movies as a kid :)

This really was art. Others have said it here and I cannot agree more. I MADE my husband and 12 yr old son watch this when it was my turn to pick something for family movie night. So far this is now one of their absolute favorite movies. It only comes behind a select few Marvel movies.

As a proud Horse With No Name defender, it's hard to believe that the band that wrote the song with the lyric "plants and birds and rocks and things" would eventually go on to write something this lyrically solid. Like this goes way harder than it needs to for a song from a kids movie.

I still weep for this.

I just watched this last night and finally understand why this movie is so special to many. You rarely see family films this well written and this music is beautiful…

I"m getting so much Led Zeppelin Stairway to Heaven vibes from this. The song and the visuals. Am I alone in this?

Loved this as a child in the early 80s. Still do as an adult. It's nice to switch off once in a while and enter a fantasy world because sometimes it's more preferable than reality.

I’ve watched this movie several times in my life. And it always leaves me with this melancholy sense of “What if?..” and “I miss this magic..” I.. I like to think that if there really are Unicorns out there somewhere, watching us.. I’d like to think if I ever saw one… I would still know it for what it was. At least.. I really hope so.

First time saw this film on HBO back in 1984. The Last Unicorn is one of my all favorite childhood movie and soundtrack song by America.

Haunting and beautiful! Yanks at my heart.

Happy 40th anniversary, The Last Unicorn! Released 11/19/1982!

This movie is a work of art. No matter how many times I see it or hear the soundtrack I feel so moved. It just connects to something in me and my heart. I feel so melancholy and yet warm...

i watched this as a child. this melody is something my brain always reverts to and i never even realized until recently that it was this soong.

Excellent work. I love the book and this cartoon. Thanks to group America I became a music lover. I first saw him on TV when I was seven years old. It was back in 1997. I did not fully understand all the events, but I could not tear myself away from watching. My childish mind and heart were filled with an incomprehensible feeling of sadness, although everything ended well in cartoon.

As a kid I wasn’t able to appreciate how beautiful these older movies were. I am now able to admire the animation and artstyle as well as the songs. Is this what it feels like to have matured?

As I stare deeply into my reflection, projected by a curbside puddle, the memory of the last unicorn emerged once again in my mimd. I felt a deep sorrow, only comparable to the loss of my dear Dobby. From walks in the woods, to being sick in car journeys, or even bringing me random artifacts from the woods. Pain is the great reminder of a love once shared between man and dog. Today would be his 56th birthday.

In Remembrance to The Last Unicorn (1982) animated film.... - Alan Arkin voice role as Schmendrick (Born: March 26, 1934 - Died: June 29, 2023) - Tammy Lee Grimes voice role as Molly Grue (Born: January 30, 1934 - Died: October 30, 2016) - Angela Lansbury voice role as Mommy Fortuna (Born: October 16, 1925 - Died: October 11, 2022) - Christopher Lee voice role as King Haggard (Born: 27 May 1922 - Died: 7 June 2015) - Keenan Wynn voice role as Captain Cully (Born: July 27, 1916 - Died: October 14, 1986) - Paul Frees voice role as Mabruk (Born: June 22, 1920 - Died: November 2, 1986) - Don Messick as Additional Voices (Born: September 7, 1926 - Died: October 24, 1997) - René Auberjonois voice role as Skull (Born: June 1, 1940 - Died: December 8, 2019) - Brother Theodore voice role as Ruhk (Born: November 11, 1906 - Died: April 5, 2001) - Ed Peck voice role as Jack Jingly, Cully's Men (Born: March 26, 1917 - Died: September 12, 1992)

Magic, excitement, music, action, fantasy, thrills, romance, and adventure. Beautiful song for the old movie, The Last Unicorn (1982). It was released eight years before I was born. I never knew it existed until I found out for myself. Unicorns are legendary and most beautiful of all creatures that walk the land. They have the body of a horse, the tail of a lion, the legs of an antelope, and a single horn in their foreheads. Their horns are magical to heal the sick and wounded, stop an ambush, and purify toxic water. The unicorns may be old and worn, but they look young, feisty, playful, and strong. As long as they have magic in their horns, they will never die and go extinct like the dinosaurs did. I love unicorns and I do believe they are real. Understand this, just because you can't see something, doesn't mean they don't exist. I never gave up believing in fairies and magic with all my heart because I still refuse to wake up, grow up, and forget all about the precious things I knew, especially those from my childhood. I am a child within. I am strong, childlike, young, and beautiful. Believe in magic and never grow up.

This movie was my absolute favorite growing up. I'd watch it with my mom. I tear up every time I watch it.

As a human, Lady Almathea is a beauty. However, as a unicorn, Lady Almathea is absolutely GORGEOUS!

I saw this in the theater with two of my 9th grade friends. We can still recite it all lol We can grow up, but some part of being young is always there.My brother looks just like Schmendrick! Lol, I still call him that.

One of the most beautiful deep and dark stories ever told. I own this on dvd. Bought it. Btw rip Alan Arkin (Schmendrick)

This is beautiful. I remember seeing this movie in the 80s as a child.

This whole movie was my childhood crush!

Still makes me cry in 2021. So many memories from the movie and the song.

I still listen this song while I cry nonstop literally ..

I`m 42 years old normaly, a Badass. But this Movie and Soundtrack gives me goosepumps. I saw this Movie sure 10 times. And everytime i cried. I don`t shame or blame about my tears. It`s all about this Movie, just timeless.

I listened to this song by America for the very first time on KZfaq and it was amazing

I absolutely adored this movie as a child🥺 I’m now 22 and tearing up seeing this again. Feels like I unlocked some very early childhood memories

Das einer meiner liebsten Filme an heilig Abend

i really enjoyed this movie as a kid and i still do, its so sad how underrated it is

This movie was so influential to me as child. I became obsessed with it when I was in high school. The animation is really refreshing.

I watched this movie over and over again when my sisters and I were kids. We still love this movie, and I can honesty say (without asking any of them), that we'd pick this movie to watch over any repackaged Disney Princess.

Turning 33, saw this when I was 4. Absolutely legendary.

This song is filled with such happiness and yet it has such a sad tone every time I listen to this song it makes me shed a tear why Jimmy Webb

As a child that was my favourite movie.

It really hurts, when you hear this wonderful song in another version for the first time. Best rendition of the song, together with the orchestra it is really beautiful.

I was 11 years old when I saw this movie. God I miss my childhood.

I will be 50 this year and me too, I will never forget this movie I saw as I was very young. The first and may be the last time I flet like a unicorne 😄. Thanks to America for the sound track 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

I remember this movie when I was young . In the early 80's . I was in early elementary school. Well we flip around the bars and call it playing The Last Unicorn 🦄 with my friend, a girl about my age . Also , group of us would pretend the wood chips are hot lava, we'd stay on tires and side. Love this movie, it's a classic. ,🤙👍🦄😎💜

this movie was my whole childhood!

i’m only 16 and i don’t what brought me back here but it did and now i have tears

I was 6 and a half months old when i first discovered the VHS tape of this film in my uncle franks attic. It was New Years Eve, and the sky was thick with mist (or it may have been fog). My family had just been through a very traumatic event (I wont go into it here, as that would be oversharing). I remember crawling into the living room and beginning to watch, transfixed, when my mother came into the room and announced that this was her favourite movie as a young girl. I was deeply saddened, pained, moved, touched, elbowed, caressed, and flabbergasted by the moral story of this film. my mother was hit by an eddie stobart lorry 3 days laters, and this memory will always live with me in my heart. its been 34 years. I miss you, mum.

I’m not gonna lie.. I’m rolling on acid rn and I remember playing this on my CD player in 2013

Damn, I just rewatched this move after not seeing it for at least 10 years I both feel like me as a kid was an idiot and realized that I still have some of the same traits. I grew up with moves like this and the secret of nymh etc. And now people say that those moves were dark but as a kid I thought they were grea, and still do. The song makes me realize that Last is a more powerful word then I thought, even more so then End simply because while something can End, that same thing can start again but if some thing is the Last then it will never happen again.

I was 11 when this came out. I just watched it 2022. I will always love this movie and the music. Nothing but a great memory.

I can feel this body dying all around me, probably the best expression of losing one's self.

this movie was a change to my life. It was beautiful, she was beautiful, and this song is so heavy. I absolutely adore her, So much that my parents got matching tattoos of her,

The animation was so beautiful in this movie!

I found America through mere chance, A Horse With No Name, Chasing the Rainbow, Tin Man, and many, many more. This song always sounded so sad when I heard it and I never knew there was an entire film made until earlier this year when my partner and I watched it together. It never fails at bringing a tear to my eye. Such a sad yet beautiful story...

RIP Angela Lansbury and Alan Arkin loved your performances as the witch and Schmendrick respectively in this film

This is the song that always makes me cry. Reminding me of my childhood 😢

America's heartfelt chord progressions such as the ones in this song are still a major influence in my own songwriting. There really is magic in it.

I never watched this movie as a child, but I definitely want to buy it on DVD someday!

She's such a beautiful creature.

After all these years it still touches chordes within a generation.

This is still my favorite animated film in the world. It holds so much meaning for me.

Even as an adult this continues to be one of my favorite films. Sadly, I feel more and more like King Haggard these days than Shmendrick.

i saw this movie when i was very little, one of the first movies i can remember watching as a toddler, and i loved it for years whenever i remembered it. i am going to be 18 this year, and i still adore this movie to bits, especially its animation. i appreciate it a lot now, and consider it a masterpiece.

Still my favourite movie

This movie and this song is just magical... It helps me to remember the childhood.

I'm a guy love this movie , I'm 45 mom n dad took me and my older sister to see this when it came, out I didn't rent it online I got it from the , library today it's sad that the live action movie never came to be would have loved to see it , I'm a hard ass lol but get sentimental when I remember my childhood , can't wait to watch this again tonight

💕This movie, so beautiful💕a piece of art. I remember watching this when I was little but it hits much different as an adult. I wish they made more animated movies like this....😢

One of the best animated movies. Grew up watching this on Home Box Office

Beautiful,nádhera.