The Poignant and Epic Saga of Featherhead and Luck

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    I remember hearing a story
    About a girl who wanted to fly
    Something about dreams as fragile a bubbles
    Well perhaps it won't apply
    It seems she'd flap her arms everyday 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
    ... 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 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...

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    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
    ... 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 over 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 secrets 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 Sampson'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
    How It'll take forever to go away
    And it takes everything you have
    ... to be in love

    Well time wears on, and soon featherhead and Lack had to grow
    up
    Feather didn't quit and would be finishing school soon
    She works for NASA exploring space
    Flying regularly to Jupiter's 7th moon
    Lack defying all law of gravity and otherwise, flew away
    You see those lumps on his back grew into great big gossamer wings
    He changed his name to Luck because he had so much
    He 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

    But it takes the guiltiest of eyes
    To condemn the man who dies
    It takes a thousand of his best spies
    To finally realize
    It could take weeks for me to say
    How It'll take forever to go away
    And it takes everything you have
    ... to be in love

    I remember hearing a story...

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    Composition: John Popper

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