Title - I Don't Feel Small Band - Bland Hero Year - 2003 __________ Toiling in the shadows of London's broadcasting houses, the members of Bland Hero spent their days churning out disposable background music for daytime television while moonlighting at dingy Soho pubs by night. Their massive break arrived in 2003 when lead singer Brett Whitter secured a long-shot pitch to write a theme for a new animated feature film about tiny people surviving in a giant's world. Drawing on the band's own feelings of insignificance within the towering music industry, they penned "Framework." The sweeping, atmospheric track perfectly mirrored the movie's literal "creaking timber" and "footsteps like thunder," while Whitter's signature falsetto delivered a tender, soaring message about not feeling small. The cinematic gamble paid off brilliantly. Released as the film's lead single, the emotionally resonant anthem eclipsed the movie entirely, becoming a colossal international hit that transformed Bland Hero from anonymous TV composers into stadium-headlining titans of the decade's melodic alt-rock scene. __________ Living in the framework Listening to the timber creak The world is full of giants I can hear them in my sleep Footsteps like the thunder So I just stay under Looking through the floorboards Watching how the big world spins Waiting for the quiet Waiting for the day to begin And then I saw you Looking at me, too And suddenly, the shadows fall And suddenly, I don't feel small No, I don't feel small At all We're just two little sparks Glowing in an ocean of dark If they try to pull us under If they try to pull us apart We won't disappear I'm staying right here 'Cause suddenly, the shadows fall And suddenly, I don't feel small No, I don't feel small At all So I will cross the open floor I don't know what I'm waiting for Yeah, I will risk the great divide Just to stand there by your side Just to stand there by your side By your side We are not small No, we are not small We have it all We have it all
