Small Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Hatingthelord 

Cover art for Small lyrics by Portishead

Hi everyone. For me, another song where God and Death are involved (and also accepting that God and Death are one figure in the end).

It started the night a human being and Death met. This human being is telling the story. I guess this human being was trying to kill him/herself and then the Death appears speaking about 'Freedom', freedom you obtain after you die, and also wisdom. After all, human beings are having a kind of 'glory' in evolution.

But then again, God's joke. Human beings thinks they are the pick of the piramid, even that they were created in his/her own image and likeness. So stupid, we are in fact small, tasteless and flawed.

We try to understand, but we are only men, trying to be more than we are.

And as we can't be like God, we hate him/her. We waste our lifes 'hating the Lord'. That's human being.

My Interpretation