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The Giant

from Chunk by Felix M-B

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lyrics

You know those dreams of Albion
You’ve seen them from your car
I know those dreams of Albion
They’re clearer from afar
The heather rolls and chimney smoke
That famous yellow raincoat
I’m too big for now
Wouldn’t fit around my finger

But I feel smaller than the day I nearly drowned
But I tripped and took out half of my hometown

The baker died, the mayor went splat
They found the priest all squished and the postman flat
Now at the public house there’s not a single glass
And the drunks have started drinking from the open taps
And the cries of the widowers, the kids and the wives
Are the worst I’ve heard in all my life
And it’s all my fault this pain and strife
My big fat feet and my big old teary eyes

But I feel smaller than the day I nearly drowned
But just you tell that to the folks in my hometown

They put up with my size for a little while
But this stumble really put some fire in their eyes
They burned my parents’ house and locked my loved ones up
And they chased me out of town with a dozen quarry trucks
I tried to make it up to them, I begged and I sobbed
But the old men just sneered and the kids threw rocks
And I wished that I could feel it, the stoning at my feet
To make the shame hurt less as the dreaded memories repeat

And I feel smaller than the day I nearly drowned
And now I can’t go back, back to my hometown

So here I stand, out on the road
Grown out of my shoes, grown out of my clothes
Naked as a newborn in the driving wind
And I’ve got no one to hold me, to wrap me up within
Their arms
What I’d give to be held like that
Fresh out of the bath, on my mother’s lap
Wrapped in a towel that’s been warming on the radiator

But I feel smaller than the day I nearly drowned
And it’s colder than it was in my hometown

You know those dreams of Albion
You’ve seen them from your car
I know those dreams of Albion
They’re clearer from afar
The heather rolls and chimney smoke
That famous yellow raincoat
I’m too big for now
Wouldn’t fit around my finger

credits

from Chunk, track released September 25, 2020
Written & Composed by Felix M-B
Produced by Jamie Davies
Assisted by Becca Mercer
Vocals, Guitars, Piano & Harmonium by Felix M-B
Strings by Jerry Cronin
Horns by Leo Clayton
Mastered by Mike Hillier

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Felix M-B London, UK

Folk Singer/Songwriter from Nottingham, UK

Members: Felix M-B

Genre: Folk

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