big as you when i was small you used to...tolerate me as long as I didn't get too close to you you ran...with such an important crowd you didn't think it was appropriate for me too i'd compliment you, on such a fine performance i really liked the way you sang that song yeah you'd tolerate me, as long as i knew my place little did you know that you wouldn't last very long but now i'm big - at least as big as you and i see things more clearly from up here the way you treat me, now that we're on an equal level tells me that you think of me as your peer but i don't think so -maybe you were right the first time we shouldn't be running in the same social scene i like it this way, now i don't have to deal with you i'm sure that you know exactly what mean it's so weird, you acting like you know me suddenly trying to hang out with me too i was just getting used to - having you always show me who would have thought that i'd be showing you i saw you - at the little reunion last night you had that puzzled look of a deer frozen in headlights could it be because of me that you're so uncomfortable i never knew you to be so afraid of heights you're waiting on me -hoping i make the first move cause you think you can talk your way around what i say but there's a new understanding -between us now don't you think so and you're looking back on a younger and brighter day it's so ironic, that i should have ever outgrown you you always acted so much better than me and it's so funny, i guess that i've never really known you now that i'm not so small i'm beginning to see.... words and music by joe herbert, copyright 1992