Small and Pretty
Christina Cantalini delivers a soulful testament of courage, confidence and healing in her song “Dragonfly." The song is supported by a slow instrumental accompaniment with a Nashville-style sessions sound (electric guitar, drums, bass). The song appears to play on themes of the tiny, the colorful, and the unique (dragonflies, jelly beans) as metaphors of self-expression; not necessarily the most powerful or fierce things in the world, but Christina doesn't seem to care about being large and in charge. Instead, she paints herself as a tiny, delicate, beautiful, and free...with the entire sky as her home. She sings of recovery from a controlling or possibly abusive former partner, ready to take to the air and soar.
Dragonflies go screeching by
My open window pane
Watching all their silhouettes
Everyone looks the same
I wish, I wish, I wish I could soar
Jelly beans go crashing down
All the colors fill the ground
Scattering like rainbows
It’s a feeling we all know
I wish, I wish, I wish I could soar
My arms open wide
I soar, I’ll take to the sky
You’ll never bring me down again
Cause I’m a dragonfly
I’ve learned to hide
I’m taking my time again
I sigh, I think
I’m finally on the mend
I breathe, I breathe,
then breathe again.
But I soar, my arms open wide
I soar, I’ll take to the sky
You’ll never bring me down again
Cause I’m a dragonfly
I'd like to show you just what I'm made of
I'd like to prove it to myself
A little rust still hangs on my doorway
But I trust it'll be OK.

