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...