big man

well i bit on my lip

and i kicked at my toes

no

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

that you told me so i told you so

but i would have managed

i would have been fine

i'd do it myself and i'd 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 fell in this position

i will still teach my kids pride

because failure's a part of it all

and if failure don't hurt then failure don't work at all

but somebody told me that your nephew was born

oh

a 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've 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.)