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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".