I have often felt ashamed for being “small,” and my partner Sam has often felt ashamed for being “big.” It turns out that those designations are totally meaningless. Yet even within the queer community, folks will make all kinds of assumptions about your characteristics and capabilities based simply on the volume of space you take up relative to another person. Well, that shit is bonkers. Don’t tell me how to spoon.
lyrics
This world is much too large for
People like you, they tell me
The seams of all my clothes have all been
Measured for a different kind of man
And oh, I’ve been made to feel like
An inconsequential man
And oh, I’ve been made to feel like
An inconsequential man
Your voice will not be heard from a
Body like yours, they tell me
The strings inside your throat will never
Vibrate from a vessel such as yours
And oh, I’ve been deferential to the
Men I’ll never be
But oh, I grow ever larger by a
Light they cannot see
You’re so small, they tell me
But I’ll be seen if it kills me
I am tall like an oak tree
And all my branches extend into the sun
This world is much to small for
People like you, they tell him
But oh, my darling knows my heart is
Wide enough to hold all of his love
And oh, we are both survivors of a
Certain set of lies
But oh, we cross all the the limits that they
Place upon our size
Weightless like a feather
This love breaks chains and untethers
There is no storm I can’t weather
And he gives me the fearlessness to fly
I will be his big spoon
I don’t need to stretch just to make room
My body is broad as the full moon
And we fit like the stars fit in the sky
I’ll be there with you when we
Take on this world, I tell him
We are just like mountains, how we
Take up space and
We will not be moved
And oh, my sweetheart knows that
He and I both share a single size
But oh, you will never see it if you
Only use your eyes
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