Enormous Lyrics – Streetlight Manifesto

Read the full Enormous lyrics by Streetlight Manifesto along with the music video, song credits, release information and other details about the song. If you enjoy Streetlight Manifesto’s music, you can also explore Imagine This, another song by Streetlight Manifesto.

[Verse 1]
There might’ve been a better way (Might’ve been a better way, but now it’s gone to waste!)
Doesn’t really matter because the ending isn’t better
It’s the price you pay
Everyone will hesitate
(Everyone will hold their words back (??))
(??) like anything is different (??)
Everything is written, we’re just reading the lines we’re given, like we were actors
Hoping that we make it to the curtain call
We’re fighting over big parts
Stepping on each others toes
But the audience is eyeing the clock
Cause they know how the story goes
And they’re holding onto hope until it’s gone

[Chorus]
And everybody here will ignore us
’till we grow enormous
We’ll blot out the sun and the moon and the stars above
Then everyone will ask for forgiveness
They’ll ask why we did this
But we won’t know what to tell, so we’ll sing this song

If everybody stands for defusing
We’ll find it amusing
And they don’t know what to say
’cause they know they’ll want more
When everybody’s scars are forgotten
The battles we fought for less
You’ll make our rumors stand up while the others ignore

[Refrain]
(Why don’t you hold your head up high?
You got a lot on your plate
You got a lot on your mind
Why don’t you hold your head up high?
You got a lot on your plate

You got a lot on your mind)

[Verse 2]
Oh every single word I said
(Every single thing we’ve ever done (??))
Every single thought I ever thought I really thought about was someone else
Brag about her in a sense
(Bragging ’bout the things we know (??))
Staring like an idiot and hoping other idiots would make some sense

Every now and then I hear somebody say they never meant for this to happen
Will you, pray tell, what the hell did you think would come?
The psychopomp grows impatient
The horsemen are tapping their toes
But me and my cats, will be watching from the back
‘Cause we know how the story goes
Yeah we’ve given up on hope because it’s gone

[Refrain]
(Why don’t you hold your head up high?
You got a lot on your plate
You got a lot on your mind
Why don’t you hold your head up high?
You got a lot on your plate
You got a lot on your mind)

[Verse 3]
Liars and ba*tards start to shape us
The decent and the modest took the reins
But I got everything I need
Almost everything I want
And a few things that I’m still missing I see on the horizon
And it makes no difference who you are or who you owe
Cause you’ll need to leave all the pleasantries when it’s finally time to go
What you know will turn to knew
And what you have will turn to had
What you are will turn to was
And the world will turn to ash
But I feel everyone I’ve lost
And I see everyone I love
Every time I stop and slow my breath and stand for long enough
And it makes no difference who you are or who you know
Cause you’ll need to leave all the pleasantries when it’s finally time to go
And we take the stock of the things we’ve got cause we’re always running low
Then they’re gone

[Chorus]
And everybody here will ignore us
’till we grow enormous
We’ll blot out the sun and the moon and the stars above
Then everyone will ask for forgiveness
Well that’s why we did this
But we won’t know what we’ve done
Until we sing this song

[Refrain]
(Why don’t you hold your head up high?
You got a lot on your plate
You got a lot on your mind
Why don’t you hold your head up high?
You got a lot on your plate
You got a lot on your mind)