Giant of Illinois-Andrew Bird

[00:13.659]The giant of Illinois [00:21.57]Died of a blister on his toe [00:26.957]After walking all day [00:29.925]Through the first winter snow [00:35.674]Throwing bits of stale bread [00:43.00]To the last speckled dove [00:48.860]He never even felt [00:52.379]His shoes filled with blood [01:01.268]Delirious with pain [01:03.791]His bedroom walls began to glow [01:07.296]And he felt himself [01:09.572]Floating up through falling snow [01:13.943]And the sky was a woman's arm [01:22.64]Sky was a woman's arm [01:53.599]A boy with a club foot [02:00.831]Had sat next to him in school [02:07.132]Once upon a summer's day [02:09.942]They went walking through the woods [02:15.273]They spotted a sleeping swan [02:22.502]On the banks of a muddy stream [02:28.427]And they stormed it with rocks [02:31.421]Till it collapsed in the reeds [02:40.501]They laid out on the grass [02:43.242]Full of chocolate and lemonade [02:47.90]And underneath it all the giant was afraid [02:53.479]And the sky was a woman's arm [03:00.813]Sky was a woman's arm [03:07.490]Sky was a woman's arm