Cruising up above me, bourne up aloft on an easy wind Sweeping down the valley, curving up the slope Floating diving turning twisting to me again Cursing the crick in the nape of my neck I squint both my eyes, to focus on the speck A floating flying tiny tender dandelion seed And I can taste the irony That I would think so much of me To imagine I know anything at all This little seed with tiny wings Can fly higher than I've ever dreamed Freely soaring to where I'll never be Isn't that a humbling thing Cruising down the freeway, born in the land of the muscle cars Sweeping through the corners, turning up the beat Flying rising breathless artificial octane steed Cursing the price at the gasoline pump I peel out the station, let's get out of this dump Reckless, foolish, empty, riding on a hurricane But I can taste the irony That I would think so much of me To imagine I go anywhere at all This little car I ride inside Could keep on driving after I die Win the gold at the auto show in 2093 As I go through life I'm constantly humbled by how small and how limited I am And yet when i keep my heart open, I feel this call in the wind, and the warm sun - to be Like that dandelion seed floating in the breeze, tiny and powerless on my own, but lofted Up to the limitless sky by this powerful breeze beneath me. To admit my need to be lifted Up, and shown the eternal horizon stretching out before me. So fly, dandelion fly