Various Artists - Giant of Illinois lyrics

The giant of Illinois Died of a blister on his toe After walking all day through the first winter's snow Throwing bits of stale bread To the last speckled dove He never even felt his shoe fill 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 arms And the sky was a woman's arms A boy with a clubfoot Sat next to him at 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 stoned it with rocks till it collapsed in the reeds They laid out on the gra** Full with chocolate and lemonade And underneath it all the giant was afraid And the sky was a woman's arms The sky was a woman's arms The sky was a woman's arms