Sky Piece

On the edge of a small town, on a small farm there lived a small boy with five sisters
One dad, and a pig
And the father, he was born there, in that very same town
And in all of his years there, it never let him down
But the boy asked him questions about other, bigger towns
And all of these questions were met with a frown
So while doing his chores, the boy often doddled and dreamed
And he sang to his pig of the big world he'd see

A piece of the sky came falling down
Landed in the field by my house
I woke in the night
And walked outside
To see what the noise was about

And there on the ground I could see
Something as dark as the sky
And it only occurred to me what it was
When the stars started falling by

So I picked up the sky piece and brought it inside
Put it at the foot of my bed
I couldn't get to sleep with the stars at my feet
So I put it in the bath tub instead

And every time I took a shower, I did it in thunder and rain
And every time I needed rainbows, I looked for them down the drain