Dandelion Roots

written with Angie LaPaglia

• Dandelion Roots

Dandelion Roots

well the sky has shed its skin now
for a new and shiny moon
and the leaves all leave like butterflies
that never had cocoons

and I hear my freckles are fading
and the angels that put ‘em there
and my sins now are only flowers
tumbling down from my hair

but my dandelion roots are soft and strong
and this morning when you sang for me that song
I believed for once I really do belong
and I'll fly away, oh glory I'll fly away

well the path unfolds in measures
like this song that never ends
and I stand a stone in the cobbles
and sing it out loud again

and the wind along is with me
it bends me soft and low
and its breath is sifting me apart
and there calls another home

Did they build the roads
For finding things
Or for us to lose ourselves?

and my dandelion roots are soft and strong
and this morning when I sing for you this song
I believe for once I really do belong
and I'll fly away, oh glory I'll fly away

and my dandelion roots are soft and strong
and this morning when I sing for you this song
I believe for once I really do belong
and I'll fly away, oh glory I'll fly away

© Brendan Bonsack & Angie LaPaglia
May 2019

1. Farther, Farther Sail
2. Dandelion Roots
3. A Letter from my Grandchildren (with Celine Yap)
4. Happy Prince

Imaginary Lines
Released May 2019