Big Man - Boy & Bear

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 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

Whoa, 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