[ti:The Bigger Picture] [ar:Stornoway] [al:Tales from Terra Firma] [00:00.34]Stornoway - The Bigger Picture [00:12.13]you may have seen the thread of silver on the window in the bathroom [00:18.82]that was thicker than the thread your heart was hanging from [00:24.82]you may have seen the lid of darkness clamping down upon a sunset [00:31.38]no less tightly than your heart was beating strong [00:35.00]in the bigger picture, there's a thread thirteen times thinner [00:44.07]in the bigger picture, there's a lid fourteen times tighter [00:50.57]in the bigger picture, there's a night fifteen times darker [00:57.01]and it'll hold you like no other, in the bigger picture... [01:03.07]you may have seen the first star flickering in the park one summer evening [01:10.19]no less faintly than the dream your heart was wishing on [01:17.94]you may have seen the seagull circling on the haze above the factory [01:22.51]with more purpose than the course your life was on [01:28.76]but if you haven't seen the places you have come from [01:35.32]then you haven't seen how far you have come [01:41.07]in the bigger picture, there's a star sixteen times fainter [01:47.82]in the bigger picture, there's a course seventeen times straighter [01:53.76]in the bigger picture, there's a dream eighteen times greater [02:00.01]and it'll steer you like no other, in the bigger picture... [02:04.70] [02:35.70]you may have seen the blazing bonfire burning bright in fickle beauty [02:40.63]that was turned to lifeless ashes in the morning [02:45.04]you may have seen the single snowdrop where it shivered in the graveyard [02:51.48]no less fragile than the soul to which you cling [02:57.61]but if you haven't seen the people you have come from [03:04.04]then you haven't seen the person you've become [03:10.04]in the bigger picture, there's no answer to your prayers [03:16.10]in the bigger picture but there's a billion other fires [03:22.65]in the bigger picture, you'll learn how to build yours higher [03:29.02]when you've seen the savage wonder in the bigger picture... [03:37.15]in the bigger picture, there's a sea breeze three times fresher [03:43.65]and it'll make your two eyes water, in the bigger picture... [03:50.02]