Blues Traveler - Featherhead & Lucky Lack Lyrics
Music: chan kinchlaLyrics: john popperI remember hearing a storyAbout a girl who wanted to flySomething about dreams as fragile as bubblesWell perhaps it wont applyIt seems shed flap her arms every day and every nightAs hard and as long as she couldShe knew her dream needed all the love she could give itFor it to do her any goodOne night her heart spoke in a dreamIt told her if you really love this believe, becauseIt takes the guiltiest of eyesTo condemn the man who diesIt takes a thousand of his best spiesTo expose as many liesIt could take weeks for me to sayHow itll take forever to go awayAnd it takes everything you haveEverything to be in loveWell across the street there lived a little boySad disfigured child with two humps on his backPitiful autistic little mess in a wheelchairThe other kids all named him lackBut lack started to take an interestIn that girl across the wayHed watch in amazement from his windowWhile she flapped her armsAnd thats how theyd spend their daysShed soon inspire him to standThat girl everyone called featherheadMade him clearly understandThatIt takes the guiltiest of eyesTo condemn the man who diesIt takes a thousand of his best spiesTo expose as many liesIt could take weeks for me to sayHow itll take forever to go awayAnd it takes everything you haveEverything to be in loveSoon lack could walk and talk and hide his humpsAnd people realized how clever he could beFeather still dreaming about the skiesUnaware of how in love lack was with sheOne day she quit flapping her arms at lastConvinced that shed accomplished nothing at allWhen lack heard this he ran, not walked to her houseAnd he begged her, yes he begged her not to let rome fallHe said everything I am now is for and because of youYou see I understand your secret and I swear to God its all trueIt takes the guiltiest of eyesTo condemn the man who diesIt takes a thousand of his best spiesTo finally realizeThat it takes the strength of samsons hairTo enter if you dareAnd it takes icarus in flightTo provoke the gods to fightIt could take weeks for me to sayAnd itll take forever to go awayAnd it takes everything you haveEverything to be in loveWell time wears on, and soon featherhead and lack had to grow upFeatherhead didnt quit and would be finishing flight school soonShe works for nasa exploring spaceFlying regularly to jupiters seventh moonLack defying all laws of gravity and otherwise flew awayYou see those humps on his back grew into great big gossamer wingsHe changed his name to luck because he had so muchHe still flies where hes needed, doing all sorts of nifty and amazing thingsFrom time to time they meet up in the sky to celebrateTax dollars and miracles can let the weirdest people dateIt takes the guiltiest of eyesTo condemn the man who diesIt takes a thousand of his best spiesTo expose as many liesIt could take weeks for me to sayHow itll take forever to go awayAnd it takes everything you haveEverything to be in loveI remember hearing a story...
