“The World’s Smallest Man”

He hates what he doesn't understand
He hates what makes him uncomfortable
He's the world's smallest man
Behind a wall that keeps him untouchable

When he looks in the mirror
He hates what he sees
He hates his own reflection
And what he wishes it could be

He hates what he don't know
And people from places he'd never go
He hates them 'cause they tell him so
Every morning on the radio

When he looks at other people
He just sees the things he's not
He makes himself feel big
By making them seem small

But he's the world's smallest man
He's the world's smallest man
He's the world's smallest man
He's the world's smallest man

He lives in a big house
With a swimming pool and a private plane
Goes to church every Sunday
With a family he barely tolerates

He hates what he's told to hate
And hopes the shame will go away
He's too old and scared to change
And won't live any other way

He's the world's smallest man

He's the world's smallest man
He's the world's smallest man
He's the-, He's the world's smallest man
He's the world's smallest man

You can't slow down
You can't stop time
You can't go back
And hit rewind

You can't take your money
To the pearly gates
And buy your way to Heaven
On the Judgement Day

You can't bribe God
Like a cheap politician
To look the other way
And sell you his forgiveness

You've got no soul
Left to be redeemed
And there's no loopholes
In the savior machine

It's his father's fault
It's how he was raised
Like his father before before him
He never changed

When he learned to walk
He was taught to hate
It was second nature
From the first grade

Felt a hole inside him
He could never face
He did anything
To fill the empty space

He threw himself inside it
And now there's nothing left to save

He's the world's smallest man
He's the world's smallest man
He's the- He's the world's smallest man
The world's smallest man

He's the world's smallest man

— Moon Walker, "The World's Smallest Man"

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