I Know Stories – © 2006 Richard Ruane
In a big world, I’m the biggest one around
That’s not a boast, that’s just a fact
And that ain’t a lie
Got a castle; oh, and it’s big and made of stone
It floats in the air, way up in the clouds
A mile in the sky
Got a golden harp, and golden eggs
And a goose who’ll give me more
The harp will sing and play
And lives just to please
I’ve got a wife I love, and we float above
In my castle in the air
It’s a good life that we share
But I’m not at ease
I don’t mix much, not with those people down below
They’re petty and small; they’re nothing at all
That’s what I feel
But I worry, they’ll come up, they’ll find a way
It’s something I fear, they're hiding up here
And waiting to steal
And my pretty place will be laid to waste
Doesn’t matter that I’m strong,
Doesn’t matter that I’m big
It all will go wrong
Everything I've known will be overthrown
Though I’ll do my best I’ll lose
In the end I won't get to chose
I'll just go along
Cause I know stories
And I know how stories go
And I’m not part of a
A happy ending
What happens next, I already know
I’ll be falling, falling down
I’ll be falling, all the way to the ground
I’ll be falling, falling down
I’ll be falling, all the way to the ground
I’ve got a good wife, she might be simple but she cares
She can’t understand, why I’d fear a man
A tenth of my size
And she tells me, she says our story’s still our own
It hasn’t been told; we’ll laugh when we’re old
I should open my eyes
But in my dreams, it’s not how it seems
I’m always one wrong step behind
And a voice in the back of my mind
Says you know you can’t fly
My wife can’t see, where the harm can be
She knows I must be wrong
But I worry, after I’m gone
How will she get by?
Cause I, I know stories
And I know how stories go
And I’m not part of a
A happy ending
What happens next, I already know
I’ll be falling, I'll be falling down
I’ll be falling, all the way to the ground
I’ll be falling, all the way to the ground