I am just a speck of dust inside a giant's eye

Aqui há dias aconteceu-me uma coincidência a que ninguém parece dar importância, mas que não me sai da cabeça. Numa daquelas tardes sem nada para fazer, fui dar uma volta por Coimbra e quando acordei dei comigo no Portugal dos Pequenitos a olhar para um casal de anões que levavam a filha a passear num mundo que podia ter sido feito para eles.

Senti-me um gigante a navegar por terras desconhecidas, um Golias perdido algures numa terra banhada pelo Atlântico onde toda a gente é pequena e tudo é feito à medida deles. É engraçado que eles devem sentir exactamente o contrário no seu dia-a-dia.



A música
Todos já nos sentimos pequenitos e todos já nos sentimos gigantes, maiores do que os outros, quando isso acontecer devemos lembrar-nos que somos apenas um grão de areia na imensidão do Universo.

A música chama-se I Like Giants e podem encontrá-la no álbum Remember That I Love You da minha pequena amiga Kimya Dawson, a princesa do Anti-Folk.

When I go for a drive I like to pull off to the side
Of the road, turn out the lights, get out and look up at the sky
And I do this to remind me that I'm really, really tiny
In the grand scheme of things and sometimes this terrifies me

But it's only really scary cause it makes me feel serene
In a way I never thought I'd be because I've never been
So grounded, and so humbled, and so one with everything
I am grounded, I am humbled, I am one with everything

Rock and roll is fun but if you ever hear someone
Say you are huge, look at the moon, look at the stars, look at the sun
Look at the ocean and the desert and the mountains and the sky
Say I am just a speck of dust inside a giant's eye
I am just a speck of dust inside a giant's eye

When I saw Geneviève I really liked it when she said
What she said about the giant and the lemmings on the cliff
She said 'I like giants
Especially girl giants
Cause all girls feel too big sometimes
Regardless of their size'

When I go for a drive I like to pull off to the side
Of the road and run and jump into the ocean in my clothes
And I'm smaller than a poppyseed inside a great big bowl
And the ocean is a giant that can swallow me whole

So I swim for all salvation and I swim to save my soul
But my soul is just a whisper trapped inside a tornado
So I flip to my back and I float and I sing
I am grounded, I am humbled, I am one with everything
I am grounded, I am humbled, I am one with everything

So I talked to Geneviève and almost cried when she said
That the giant on the cliff wished that she was dead
And the lemmings on the cliff wished that they were dead
So the giant told the lemmings why they ought to live instead

When she thought up all those reasons that they ought to live instead
It made her reconsider all the sad thoughts in her head
So thank you Geneviève, cause you take what is in your head
And you make things that are so beautiful and share them with your friends

We all become important when we realize our goal
Should be to figure out our role within the context of the whole
And yeah, rock and roll is fun, but if you ever hear someone
Say you are huge, look at the moon, look at the stars, look at the sun
Look at the ocean and the desert and the mountains and the sky

Say I am just a speck of dust inside a giant's eye
I am just a speck of dust inside a giant's eye
I am just a speck of dust inside a giant's eye
And I don't wanna make her cry
Cause I like giants