Forty days I called them out to fight Now they only tell you how I fell Every war I won gets lost to the night I'm the giant they remember well One stone, one name, and that's the whole tale A champion's life for a single detail I was the wall Gath built to end a war Bronze on my chest, a spear like a beam One man could settle what armies were for That was the deal, that was the scheme Forty mornings, the same challenge rang out Waiting on someone to answer the shout They sent a boy with a sling, one stone No shield, no sword, just five from the creek I called it a joke, told him to go home Said the birds would eat where his god couldn't speak He said the fight belonged to his God Before I moved, the stone was already gone Forty days I called them out to fight Now they only tell you how I fell Every war I won gets lost to the night I'm the giant they remember well One stone, one name, and that's the whole tale A champion's life for a single detail Nobody carries my name to their kids Nobody builds me a wall or a crown Nine feet of height and it's all that gets said One afternoon, and the rest of it drowns Brothers, a house, and a road I walked home None of it lives, just the fall, just alone Ish ha-benayim That's the name, the man in between Not a monster, not a god, just the space in the seam Some kings fall from a crown grown too tight Mine had no crown at all, just a boy and firelight I'm not erased, just defined by a single afternoon Forty days I called them out to fight Now they only tell you how I fell Every war I won gets lost to the night I'm the giant they remember well Maybe that's the only shape a story needs One stone, one name, and somewhere, someone reads Giant That's the only word they kept Giant Nine feet of silence since I slept
