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Artist/Band: Handsome Family
Lyrics for Song: The Giant Of Illinois
Lyrics for Album: Live At Schuba's Tavern [2002]



The giant of Illinois

Died from a blister on his toe

After the walking all day

Through the first winter's snow



Throwing bits of stale bread

To the last speckled doves

He never even felt

His shoe full of blood



Delirious with pain

His bedroom walls began to glow

And he felt himself soaring up

Through falling snow



And the sky was a woman's arms

The sky was a woman's arms



A boy with a club foot

Had sat next to him in school

Once upon a summer's day

They went wandering through the woods



They spotted a sleeping swan

On the banks of a muddy stream

And they stormed it with rocks

Till it collapsed in the reeds



They 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


Album Lyrics: Live At Schuba's Tavern [2002]


Handsome Family
"Live At Schuba's Tavern [2002]"


1. Cathedrals
2. Down In The Ground
3. Drunk By Noon
4. My Ghost
5. My Sister's Tiny Hands
6. The Giant Of Illinois
7. The Woman Downstairs
8. Weightless Again