The Giant Of Illinois

The giant of Illinois
Died from a blister on his toe
After the walking all day
Through the first winter's snowThrowing bits of stale bread
To the last speckled doves
He never even felt
His shoe full of bloodDelirious with pain
His bedroom walls began to glow
And he felt himself soaring up
Through falling snowAnd the sky was a woman's arms
The sky was a woman's armsA boy with a club foot
Had sat next to him in school
Once upon a summer's day
They went wandering through the woodsThey spotted a sleeping swan
On the banks of a muddy stream
And they stormed it with rocks
Till it collapsed in the reedsThey lay out on a green lawn
Full of chocolate and lemonade
But under the blue bowl
The giant was afraid'Cause the sky was a woman's arms
The sky was a woman's arms