Small Words

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Verse

We had a meeting for the meeting with a slideshow for the slides
And the words were big as zeppelins, too heavy to explain
There was synergy and bandwidth and a swim lane in the rain
And a "circle back" that circled like a paper airplane
Round and round the ceiling fan and never down again
And we nodded, and we nodded, with our eyes all open wide
'Cause nobody understood a thing, but everybody tried
And the clouds of all the big words hid the sun on every side

Chorus

Small words
Like "Good morning" and "Hello"
Like "I'm sorry" and "I'm listening" and "Oh, I didn't know"
Like "Show me how you'd do it" and "Let's take it nice and slow"
They're the tiniest of lanterns, but they make a whole room glow
Small words
They fly further than the big ones, like a flock of little birds
Oh, the biggest things I ever said were made of small words

Verse

There's Marisol by the window and she always stays late
And she fixes all the little things that nobody can trace
Like the comma in the contract and the font that's out of place
And she labeled every cable with a ribbon made of lace
But the thank-yous never made it through the miles of empty space
So I wandered over slowly with a cookie on a plate
And I said, "That thing you did was great," and she said, "Really? Wait..."
And she lit up like a city at a quarter after eight

Chorus

Small words
Like "Good morning" and "Hello"
Like "I'm sorry" and "I'm listening" and "Oh, I didn't know"
Like "Show me how you'd do it" and "Let's take it nice and slow"
They're the tiniest of lanterns, but they make a whole room glow
Small words
They fly further than the big ones, like a flock of little birds
Oh, the biggest things I ever said were made of small words

Bridge

I used to bring a big thesaurus everywhere, a giant book
And I stacked the words like bricks to build a castle in my mind
Every sentence was a tower with a hundred floors designed
But nobody could climb it, and I left them all behind
Now I only carry pebbles, smooth and simple, warm and kind
And I pass them out like candy at each desk and every nook
And it's funny, oh, it's funny, just how little that it took
Oh, how little that it took

Chorus

Small words
Like "Good morning" and "Hello"
Like "I'm sorry" and "I'm listening" and "Oh, I didn't know"
Like "Show me how you'd do it" and "Let's take it nice and slow"
They're the tiniest of lanterns, but they make a whole room glow
Small words
They fly further than the big ones, like a flock of little birds
Oh, the biggest things I ever said were made of small words

Outro

Small words