Big Man

	  		
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Well I bit on my lip, and I kicked at my toes 
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No, I don't need your lecture cause your lecture won't show 
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That you told me so I told you so 
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But I would have managed, I would have been fine 
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I'd do it myself and I'd do it just my way, 
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I'm a big man for thinking just so. 

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But somebody told me that your mother was born 
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Oh a wandering woman with a spirit so sworn of the riverside 
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And it never surprised me but it meant that my love was immobilized 
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Well, it meant that my love was immobilized  
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Cause when it comes, it comes when it does. 

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But you came in the middle and you fell in my hands 
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Oh a, wonderful woman and an average man. 
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See that makes me the lucky man 
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I won't be deserving, but I won't be denied 
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See, I fell in this position, I will still teach my kids pride 
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Because failure's a part of it all 
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And if failure don't hurt then failure don't work at all 

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But somebody told me, our nephew was born 
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Oh, a beautiful baby, so smart and so sure of his little self 
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And in a wonderful way he was making me feel so small 
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Was making me feel so small, 
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Was making me feel so small. 
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And I don't think I've felt this before. 

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In all the reasons to come, well they override my body and, 
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I point to the sun, cause where it's warm is where the wilderness grows 
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And it grows, and it grows 'till it all becomes nothing  
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And nothing is left as you know. 

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(We walked it for a thousand years, with broken eyes and salted ears 
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Complaining 'bout the weather like we ever had a choice. 
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Through all the noise and self abuse, you waited for your fill of truth 
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Oh I'm terrified I'll achieve nothing at all.)