Giant of Illinois

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 shoes 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
 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
 'Til 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 arms
 The sky was a woman's arms
 The sky was a woman's arms