While this album stylistically pays genuine homage to Bacharach’s music, the choice of song here seems deeply ironic given the themes of lifelong failure and then suicide of the two respective songs that follow it. Despite this song’s cheerful outlook, its contextual sarcasm keeps with the general c...
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
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
Something Big was written by Burt Bacharach.
Something Big was produced by Jim O’Rourke.
Jim O’Rourke released Something Big on Thu Feb 25 1999.