One Small Thing

Hook One small thing done again one small thing done again Intro I gave up on the big move somewhere around thirty five Verse Used to lie awake and plan the whole life the clean sweep the brand new man Monday morning came and took it off me every Monday for a while Then a fellow at the yard said something he said don't move the mountain, move a stone Move a stone before your breakfast and come back tomorrow for the next Pre Chorus So I stopped trying to be new and I started being often Chorus One small thing done again one small thing done again Not the mountain not the year just the stone that's lying here Post Chorus Sweep the step and mind the light letter written Sunday night Ten slow minutes with the boy that's the whole of what I've got Verse And it looked like nothing for a long time looked like nothing for a year Then I turned around one evening and there was a road behind my house I never built a road in my life I only ever laid one stone But the stones had been in one direction and direction makes a road Pre Chorus So I stopped trying to be new and I started being often Chorus One small thing done again one small thing done again Not the mountain not the year just the stone that's lying here Post Chorus Sweep the step and mind the light letter written Sunday night Ten slow minutes with the boy that's the whole of what I've got Verse Big change is a young man's religion and I wish him well with it I have watched it burn a lot of good men in a bright and hungry week Give me the dull and daily kind the kind you can afford The kind that's still there Thursday when the fire has gone out Bridge Nobody sings about the second time nobody sings about the ninth But the ninth is where it holds the ninth is where it holds Come back on the ninth come back and it will hold Verse So don't ask me what I'm building I have honestly no plan I've a stone here in my hand today and I'll have another one tomorrow Break One small thing one small thing Chorus One small thing done again one small thing done again Not the mountain not the year just the stone that's lying here Post Chorus Sweep the step and mind the light letter written Sunday night Ten slow minutes with the boy that's the whole of what I've got Outro One small thing one small thing done again and again One small thing one small thing and the road comes up behind