mcmorrow

Forgive me father

The World You Build

“When I Feel Small” is a deeply intimate song about the return of old inner voices — and the courage to stay present when they appear.

It explores the moments when self-doubt resurfaces, not as a failure, but as part of a healing process.
The song opens with harsh, familiar whispers:
voices that question worth, strength, and identity.
They are echoes from the past — learned judgments that once shaped survival, but now challenge growth.

Instead of fighting these voices, the narrator listens — and recognizes them for what they are:
not truth, but memory.
Not reality, but repetition.

The chorus delivers the core insight:
feeling small does not mean being lost.
It means turning inward, learning oneself anew, and allowing vulnerability to become a source of strength.

In the second verse, the song names a powerful realization:
smallness was learned — it was never the truth.
What once felt like weakness was a role shaped by pressure, not by identity.
The bridge marks a decisive shift.
The old self resists, afraid of losing control, demanding silence and submission.
But the new self rises — calm, clear, and grounded — and claims self-knowledge as power.

By the final chorus, “When I Feel Small” becomes an act of self-rescue.
The narrator chooses to hold himself, give himself space, and define his future on his own terms.
This song doesn’t deny pain or doubt.
It reframes them as signs of growth.

“When I Feel Small” is a quiet anthem of self-compassion —
a reminder that becoming whole often begins in the moments when we feel most fragile.

When I Fell Small

Early In The Morning

Hear the Noise That Moves So Soft and Low

And If My Heart Should Somehow Stop

Breaking Hearts

Post Tropical

Red Dust (Acoustic)

Our Endless Numbered Days

Naked as We Came

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Lyrics

We're in it now 
everybody knows 
what i've become 
truth is i 
never once was sad 
for what i've done 
it's like a game 
where everybody dies 
and has no fun 
still i want to play 
even if i end back 
where i've begun 
Because you make me feel 
alive in spite of rising water 
abandoning 
my car 
about a mile from nowhere 
you make me feel 
alive in spite of rising water 
abandoning 
my car about a mile from nowhere 
What happens now 
it's your lucky day, it's your lucky day 
so write it down 
guess we're gone astray, guess we're gone astray 
i wish i cried 
it's your lucky day, it's your lucky day 
it wasn't mine 
guess we're gone astray, guess we're gone astray 
Be
cause you make me feel 
alive in spite of rising water 
abandoning 
your car about a mile from nowhere 
you make me feel 

alive in spite of rising water 
abandoning 
my car about a mile from nowhere 
When i wake 
realize 
you were gone 
so i sat 
at the edge of the lawn 
days go by 
still no sign 
of your ghost 
never call 
never write 
it's a loss 
You make me feel 
alive in spite of rising water 
abandoning 
your car about a mile from nowhere 
you make me feel 
alive in spite of rising water 
abandoning 
my car about a mile from nowhere

Hear the Noise That Moves So Soft and Low

James Vincent McMorrow

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