Blues Traveler The Poignant And Epic Saga Of Featherhead And Lucky Lack Lyrics

The Poignant And Epic Saga Of Featherhead And Lucky Lack Lyrics

Music: chan kinchla

 Lyrics: john popper

 

 

 I remember hearing a story

 About a girl who wanted to fly

 Something about dreams as fragile as bubbles

 Well perhaps it won't apply

 It seems she'd flap her arms every day and every night

 As hard and as long as she could

 She knew her dream needed all the love she could give it

 For it to do her any good

 

 One night her heart spoke in a dream

 It told her if you really love this believe, because

 

 It takes the guiltiest of eyes

 To condemn the man who dies

 It takes a thousand of his best spies

 To expose as many lies

 It could take weeks for me to say

 How it'll take forever to go away

 And it takes everything you have

 Everything to be in love

 

 Well across the street there lived a little boy

 Sad disfigured child with two humps on his back

 Pitiful autistic little mess in a wheelchair

 The other kids all named him lack

 But lack started to take an interest

 In that girl across the way

 He'd watch in amazement from his window

 While she flapped her arms

 And that's how they'd spend their days

 She'd soon inspire him to stand

 That girl everyone called featherhead

 Made him clearly understand

 That

 

 It takes the guiltiest of eyes

 To condemn the man who dies

 It takes a thousand of his best spies

 To expose as many lies

 It could take weeks for me to say

 How it'll take forever to go away

 And it takes everything you have

 Everything to be in love

 

 Soon lack could walk and talk and hide his humps

 And people realized how clever he could be

 Feather still dreaming about the skies

 Unaware of how in love lack was with she

 One day she quit flapping her arms at last

 Convinced that she'd accomplished nothing at all

 When lack heard this he ran, not walked to her house

 And he begged her, yes he begged her not to let rome fall

 

 He said "everything i am now is for and because of you

 You see i understand your secret and i swear to god it's all true"

 

 It takes the guiltiest of eyes

 To condemn the man who dies

 It takes a thousand of his best spies

 To finally realize

 That it takes the strength of samson's hair

 To enter if you dare

 And it takes icarus in flight

 To provoke the gods to fight

 It could take weeks for me to say

 And it'll take forever to go away

 And it takes everything you have

 Everything to be in love

 

 Well time wears on, and soon featherhead and lack had to grow up

 Featherhead didn't quit and would be finishing flight school soon

 She works for nasa exploring space

 Flying regularly to jupiter's seventh moon

 Lack defying all laws of gravity and otherwise flew away

 You see those humps on his back grew into great big gossamer wings

 He changed his name to luck because he had so much

 He still flies where he's needed, doing all sorts of nifty and amazing
things

 From time to time they meet up in the sky to celebrate

 Tax dollars and miracles can let the weirdest people date

 

 It takes the guiltiest of eyes

 To condemn the man who dies

 It takes a thousand of his best spies

 To expose as many lies

 It could take weeks for me to say

 How it'll take forever to go away

 And it takes everything you have

 Everything to be in love

 

 I remember hearing a story...