Stornoway - The Bigger Picture lyrics

You may have seen a thread of silver, on the window in the bathroom That was thicker than the thread your heart was hanging from You may have seen a lid of darkness, clamping down upon a sunset No less tightly than your heart was being strung In the bigger picture there's a thread thirteen times thinner In the bigger picture there's a lid fourteen times tighter In the bigger picture there's a night fifteen times darker And it'll hold you like no other in the bigger picture You may have seen the first star flickering, in the park one summer evening No less faintly than the dream that you were wishing on You may have seen the seagulls circling, on the haze above the factory With more purpose than the course your life was on But if you haven't seen the places you have come from Then you haven't seen how far you have come In the bigger picture there's a star sixteen times fainter In the bigger picture there's a course seventeen times straighter In the bigger picture there's a dream eighteen times greater And it'll steer you like no other in the bigger picture You may have seen a blazing bonfire, burning bright with fickle beauty That was turned to lifeless ashes in the morning You may have seen a single snowdrop, where it shivered in the graveyard No less fragile than the soul to which you cling But if you haven't seen the people you have come from Then you haven't seen the person you've become In the bigger picture there's no answer to your prayers In the bigger picture but there's a billion other fires In the bigger picture you'll learn how to build yours higher When you've seen the savage wonder in the bigger picture In the bigger picture there's a sea breeze three times fresher And it'll make your two eyes water in the bigger picture