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