Andrew Bird - Giant Of Illinois

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the giant of illinois
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died from a blister on his toe

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after walking all day through the first winter’s snow

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throwing bits of stale bread
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to the last speckled doves
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he never even felt his shoe full of blood

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delirious with pain , his bedroom walls began to glow
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and he felt himself soaring up through falling snow

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and the sky was a woman’s arms
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the sky was a woman’s arms

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a boy with a club foot
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had sat next to him in school
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once upon a summer’s day they went wandering through the woods

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they spotted a sleeping swan
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on the banks of a muddy stream
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and they stormed it with rocks till it collapsed in the reeds

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they lay out on a green lawn full of chocolate and lemonade
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but underneath it all the giant was afraid

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and the sky was a woman’s arms
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and the sky was a woman’s arms