The Giant Of Illinois

The Giant of Illinois - Andrew Bird (Andrew Wegman Bird)

The giant of Illinois

Died from a blister on his toe

After the walking all day

Through the first winter's snow

Throwing bits of stale bread

To the last speckled doves

He never even felt

His shoe full of blood

Delirious with pain

His bedroom walls began to glow

And he felt himself soaring up

Through falling snow

And the sky was a woman's arms

The sky was a woman's arms

A boy with a club foot

Had sat next to him in school

Once upon a summer's day

They went wandering through the woods

They spotted a sleeping swan

On the banks of a muddy stream

They stormed it with rocks

Till it collapsed in the reeds

They lay out on a green lawn

Full of chocolate and lemonade

Under the blue bowl

The giant was afraid

And the sky was a woman's arms

Cause the sky was a woman's arms

And the sky was a woman's arms