Page type: lyric reference
Artist: Jim O'Rourke
Canonical path: /jim-orourke/something-big
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Something Big
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Something Big
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Like a grain of sand
That wants to be
A rolling stone
I want to be the man
I'm not,
And have the things
I really haven't got
And that's a lot
There'll be joy
And there'll be laughter.
Something big is what I'm after now
Yes, it's what I'm after now
After taking, take up giving,
Something big is what I'm living for
Yes, it's what I'm living for
Living for
Why must I go on
And fill my life with little things
When there are big things I must do
And lots of dreams
That really should come true
Before I'm through
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Jim O'Rourke performs "Something Big", and this lyric page sits inside the Jim O'Rourke catalog on LyroVerse.
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