Giant of Illinois - Andrew Bird
The giant of Illinois
Died of a blister on his toe
After walking all day
Through the first winter snow
Throwing bits of stale bread
To the last speckled dove
He never even felt
His shoes filled with blood
Delirious with pain
His bedroom walls began to glow
And he felt himself
Floating up through falling snow
And the sky was a woman's arm
Sky was a woman's arm
A boy with a club foot
Had sat next to him in school
Once upon a summer's day
They went walking through the woods
They spotted a sleeping swan
On the banks of a muddy stream
And they stormed it with rocks
Till it collapsed in the reeds
They laid out on the grass
Full of chocolate and lemonade
And underneath it all the giant was afraid
And the sky was a woman's arm
Sky was a woman's arm
Sky was a woman's arm
