Size
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Songs about big things, small things, often things that are not normal size.
Central theme[edit]
- The Big Big Whoredom - see also "Nightgown Of The Sullen Moon" on this list
- The Biggest One
- Bite-Size
- I'm A Little Airplane
- King Weed - "There's no bigger weed than me"
- Larger Than Life
- Lie Still, Little Bottle
- She's Actual Size
- South Carolina - "In a big South Carolina wreck, I crash my bicycle"
- Stalk Of Wheat - "And it felt like a trillion feet"
- There's A Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow
- They Might Be Giants - "They might be big, big, fake, fake lies"
- Tiny Doctors
- Too Tall Girl
- Wicked Little Critta
- Zeroes
Briefly mentioned[edit]
- Absolutely Bill's Mood - "My room is comfortably small"
- An Insult To The Fact Checkers - "Pick on someone else your own size"
- Ana Ng - "Eighty dolls yelling 'small girl after all'"
- Answer - "You wanted tall / I came in under 5'4"
- The Army's Tired Now - "Tired of swinging its giant arms"
- Baroque Hoedown - "A large green hippo with blinking eyes / Some tiny tiny people swinging tiny tiny lanterns"
- Birdhouse In Your Soul - "I'm a little glowing friend", "Make a little birdhouse in your soul"
- Birds Fly - "The tiny light shines twice as bright"
- Boss Of Me - "And you're not so big"
- Brainwashing Our Fighting Boys - "Our little legs are danglin' / It's upon its big toe"
- Can't Keep Johnny Down - "Men piled up in a towering mound"
- Cells - "Cells are small, too small to see", "Within the cell there's a tiny spiral staircase"
- Creepy - "Live from the mini-mall"
- D & W - "Big Fat W", "'Well I am pretty big'"
- The Day - "The trees all waved their giant arms"
- Dee Dee And Dexter - "He's got a giant mind", "Can make things grow big or small", "To robots twelve feet tall"
- Definition Of Good - "Cardboard box that a large appliance came in"
- The Edison Museum - "The tallest, widest, and most famous haunted mansion in New Jersey ... the largest independently owned and operated mausoleum"
- Elephants - "They're not the largest mammals / But they're biggest on the land"
- Everything Right Is Wrong (1984 Demo) - "That's one small man, one giant man"
- Fake-Believe - "That's Little Lord Fauntleroy, please"
- Fake-Believe (Type B) - "Waiting for the big countdown", "I've got my big crumb about thirty times my weight"
- The Famous Polka - "The famous person wears the same size water skis as me"
- Flansy Stays In The Picture - "The film was on and it was gonna be big."
- Four Of Two - "Underneath a big clock"
- Go For G! - "You'll feel...gigantic"
- I Can Hear You - "What's your order? I can supersize that"
- I Made A Mess - "Now I have a big mess on my hands"
- Iowa - "a large iron pot"
- It's Getting Late - "Little hand said to the big hand"
- I'll Sink Manhattan - "A river of tiny tears"
- I'm All You Can Think About - "That one with a tiny face"
- Kiss Me, Son Of God - "I built a little empire"
- Kitten Intro - "Put away your big blue cigars"
- Letterbox - "'Cause a little bird"
- London - "They got the big light-up sign"
- Lucky Ball & Chain - "I could shake my tiny fist"
- Mammal - "Through the large four-chambered heart"
- Memo to Human Resources - "Issues much too small to force"
- Montana - "I can lose these tiny pill cups now"
- Night Security - "Its massive size," "I want to own a tiny TV"
- Nightgown Of The Sullen Moon - "There's a feeling of boredom of the big whoredom"
- No Answer - "...can't you hear a small voice asking..."
- No One Knows My Plan - "Working on the tiny blueprint of the angle"
- Nothing's Gonna Change My Clothes - "And the mirror, it reflects a tiny dancing skeleton"
- Olive The Other Reindeer - "...was a little tiny dog"
- Or So I Have Read - "Microscopic astronauts / Will land on your head"
- Out Of A Tree - "There's no ladder as tall as that tree"
- Particle Man - Particle Man: "Is he a dot or is he a speck?" Universe Man: "Size of the entire universe man, usually kind to a smaller man"
- Pittsburgh - "We are the guests of Mr. Smalls"
- Purple Toupee - "Now I'm very big, I'm a big important man"
- Rabid Child - "Chess Piece Face and the Big Duluth"
- Raleigh - "my name is Jump Little Chicken"
- Robot Parade - "Children will work together to build a giant cyborg!"
- Rowboat Mayor - "In a vessel this small there is only rowing"
- Say Nice Things About Detroit - "The way you left you were a big big jerk"
- Shape Shifter - "I've got a big old problem"
- Spoiler Alert - "My leg is so short that I can't reach the brake"
- St. Louis - "the biggest pile of broken glass"
- Stomp Box - "Little stomp box, tear it from my heart"
- Stormy Pinkness - "The things we cherish are small indeed / So much the larger the need"
- Super Cool - "When you come around / I'm no foot tall against the wall"
- Swing Is A Word - "Where's my cat's pajamas? In the can, the big trash can"
- Then The Kids Took Over - "I was stomping around with my giant carbon footprint, but now I got so tiny you really gotta squint", "I even planted a tree, now it's twelve feet tall"
- They Got Lost - "There should be a big "B"."
- Through Being Cool - "If you live in a small town", "If you live in a big place"
- Trucker's Coffee - "So I pulled into another truck stop, in some tiny town"
- Tumbleweed - "Go little man, walk around your big land"
- Unctuous Robot - "Inside me there's a smaller man at the controls"
- We Want A Rock - "I'd buy a big prosthetic forehead"
- Why Does The Sun Shine? - "A gigantic nuclear furnace", "The sun is large", "And yet, it is only a middle-sized star", "The sun is far away, about 93,000,000 miles away, and that's why it looks so small", "Scientists have found that the sun is a huge atom-smashing machine"
- You'll Miss Me - "You'll always miss my big old body"
Honorable mention[edit]
- Gigantic (A Tale Of Two Johns)
- Join Us' cover features a monster-truck sized pink hearse. Using an instructory pdf, listeners at home can make a tiny scale model, or, if printed at 3400% the regular size, a life-size model, as featured in the video for "When Will You Die".