Big Man

Well, I bit on my lip and I kicked at my toes, no I

I don't need your lecture 'cause your lecture won't show

That you told me so, I told you so

But I woulda managed, I would have been fine

I can do it myself and I'll do it just my way

I'm a big man for thinking just so

But somebody told me that your mother was born

Wa-wa-wandering woman with a spirit so sworn of the riverside

And it never surprised me, but it meant that my love was immobilized

Well, it meant that my love was immobilized

'Cause when it comes, it comes when it does

But you came in the middle and you fell in my hands

Oh, a wonderful woman and an average man

See, that makes me the lucky man

I won't be deserving, but I won't be denied

See, I feel in the position, I'll still teach my kids pride

Because failure's a part of it all

And if failure don't hurt, then failure don't work no more

But somebody told me to a nephew was born

Whoa, beautiful baby, so smart and so sure of his little self

And in a wonderful way, he was making me feel so small

Was making me feel so small

Was making me feel so small

And I don't think I felt this before

In all the reasons to come

Well, they override my body and I point to the sun

'Cause where it's warm is where the wilderness grows

And it grows, and it grows

Till it all becomes nothing and nothing is left as you know

We walked it for a thousand years with broken eyes and salted ears

Complaining 'bout the weather like we ever had a choice

Through all the noise and self-abuse, you waited for your fill of truth

Oh, I'm terrified I'll achieve nothing at all