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Small

by Nicholas

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"Small" is a luminescent pop ballad about love, negative miracles and getting hit by a car on Thanksgiving Day. It's the lead single from Nicholas's debut album 'drum + voice', releasing June 30 via LA-based independent music label Big Tent Records.

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I was riding my bike down Clinton street.
He turned right, didn’t see me.
We collide, couldn’t breathe.

I don’t want to let you make me feel small.
I don’t want to give you all the control.
But I don’t have anyone else I can call right now.
I just got hit by a car and you were the first thing on my mind.

I don’t want to give up if it’s true love.
But I think that I’ve been hurt enough.
Can it ever be the way that it was?
I just got hit by car and you were the first thing on my mind.

I was riding my bike down Clinton street.
He turned right, didn’t see me.
We collide, I couldn’t breathe.
Flash of my life.
It must be fake.
All I saw were the golden rays of a perfect Thanksgiving day.

I don’t want to let you make me feel small.
I don’t want to give you all the control.
But I don’t have anyone else I can call right now.
I just got hit by a car and you were the first thing on my mind.

I don’t want to give up if it’s true love.
But I think that I’ve been hurt enough.
Can it ever be the way that it was?
I just got hit by car and you were the first thing on my mind.

I don’t want let you make me feel small
I don’t know if we should be talking at all
It feels impossible to fill the space you left
Im sorry if I’m not making any sense
I just hit my head.

I don’t want to let you make me feel small.
I don’t want to give you all the control.
But I don’t have anyone else I can call right now.
I just got hit by a car and you were the first thing on my mind.

I don’t want to give up if it’s true love.
(True love!)
But I think that I’ve been hurt enough.
(Enough!)
Can it ever be the way that it was?
(All I know is that I, all I know, all I know is that I loved you and that I miss you and now I’m crying in the middle of East Village.)

I just got hit by car and you were the first thing on my mind.
And I don’t know why this is the worst week of my fucking life and I don’t know why I feel the way I do.
But at the end of my life, that almost just happened, you were there and I was there inside my mind.
Inside…

I just got hit by a car.

credits

released May 17, 2023
Performed by Nicholas
Written by Nicholas Holden
Produced by Nicholas Holden
Mixed by Greg Tock
Mastered by Zoltán Sindhu

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Nicholas Los Angeles, California

folk-pop artist and producer working in southern california. writing songs feels like flying and it is the purpose of my life. i am inspired by artists like feist, lana del rey, and ryan beatty. My music can be described in three verbs:
- yearning
- dreaming
- swimming ... more

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