There’s a treasure waiting for a dandy lion

On April 16, I ran across a meme with a throwaway pun about dandelions and foppishly dressed leonines -- not the sort of thing I would have paid any attention to were it not for the sync context. "Lazy lions" have been in the sync stream for some time now, one instance being Leonard Cohen's song about being "a lazy bastard living in a suit." Ergo, lions in suits.

This morning I had a cup of coffee at a shop where they always play royalty-free tunes from Epidemic Sound. I assume they'll soon be "upgrading" to latte-in-my-lungs AI, but for now they still rely on humans. Today, they played a song about dandelions, which got my attention because of the meme.

Here are some of the lyrics:

Yeah I think there’s a treasure

Waiting for someone

To prove himself worthy and true

Yeah like a dandelion

My love’s stuck roots for you

Like a dandelion

My love’s gonna break right through

Those concrete floors and the stone laid walls

Will all be made to part

And my dandelion love

Is gonna reach your heart

This is interesting, if dandelion = dandy lion = lazy lion. The roots of the dandelion -- a "vegetable love" as in Marvell -- grow slowly but surely and reach the "heart," which is "a treasure" buried beneath "concrete floors and the stone laid walls." This calls to mind the theme of digging for a heart of gold. In a poem quoted in "I've been A minor for a heart of gold," the Gold Plates, buried underground in a stone-and-cement box, are Cumorah's "heart of gold," on which an "ancient story" is written.

That post begins by connecting the A minor arpeggio (A-C-E) on the Animalia A page with the Ace of Hearts (heart of gold) on the same page.

When I searched this blog for dandelion, remembering that Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine had been mentioned here before, I got only one hit: the March 2023 post "Sync: Ne(m)o and Morpheus." This quotes Bradbury, as I'd remembered, but the main focus is on a French song that includes the line "Ou les gammes en délire s'arpègent" -- rendered by Google as "Where delirious scales arpeggio."

The song also mentions a "marché des gorilles," translated by Google as "gorilla market." I'd put several question marks in parentheses after that translated line because it seemed so bizarre. This was well before I'd discovered "Goblin Market" (see "'Come buy,' call the goblins") or connected goblins with primates (see "Drill, baby, drill!").