Song for Lonely Giants

Lyrics

No one washed behind my ears
High in the trees alone for years
Practicing my solitary scales 'til they rose like balloons
Watching them go where they will go

Face in the leaves
Song in my throat
Fall through the air
Hoping to float

Practicing my solitary scales 'til they grow heavy
Too heavy to carry
Watching them go where they will go

Banter

• This was, I think, the first one I wrote on the way to writing the new album, which was a couple of other albums first. I had a couple of ideas that — I don't like to say of ideas that didn't go anywhere that they didn't go anywhere, but that's kind of the case — but I had two competing ideas, neither of which went anywhere, and I was working on one of them, and it sort of got away from me. I was on the beach, and I saw this one song coming down the street, and I was like, 'There you are! Where have you been? I've been waiting months for you! Hungry!' It's called Song for Lonely Giants. (2006-09-20)
• I had this vision of a, of a giant who... but who had no power of any kind, right, you know? Who was sort of a large fellow, but there was nobody around to see him. As happens when you allow yourself to dwell on senseless images across your consciousness, I got depressed about it. So I thought I would write a song about it so I could share that bad feeling with you. (2006-09-30)
• This is a song about feeling like you don't fit in anywhere. It's called Song for Lonely Giants. (2012-01-21)
• This is a song about being too big to take care of. (2012-01-31)

Live Performances

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