Listen & feel · 4 min 56 sec
Small Moments
The ordinary ones quietly become everything.
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Behind the song
A song about noticing the ordinary.
A child’s world is made up of ordinary details: the song they play too loudly, the food they avoid, the joke they hope you remember and the quiet cues that tell you when something feels like too much.
Small Moments is an invitation to keep learning who the child is becoming—not by creating perfect memories, but by noticing, remembering and asking about the life they are living now.
After listening
Notice one ordinary thing.
Which small detail in my child’s world could I notice, remember or ask about today?
Keep it ordinary. The point is not to create the perfect memory. It is to let the child feel that their changing world matters to you.
Accessible wordsRead the lyrics to Small Moments
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Cold open
You don’t have to make it perfectYou don’t have to make it bigSometimes love is just rememberingThe little things I said
Verse one
Know the shoes that fit my feetKnow the song I play too loudKnow the thing I’m building latelyAsk me how it’s turning outKnow the food I’ll always orderAnd the one I won’t go nearKnow when somewhere gets too noisyKnow what helps me settle hereNone of it looks like a big thingNobody’s watchingNobody clapsBut somehow all those little detailsTell meYou’ve been paying attention
Pre-chorus
I keep changingRight in front of youNew favouritesNew fearsNew things I want to doYou don’t have to knowEverything about meJust keep learningWho I’m becoming
Chorus
It’s the small momentsThe things nobody seesKnowing what makes me light upKnowing what gets too loud for meRemember what I told youAsk me how it turned outYou don’t have to make a perfect memoryJust be hereWhile I’m growing upIt’s the small momentsThat tell meYou know me
Verse two
Ask me what happened at schoolNot just whether school was goodKnow the thing that made me proudEven if nobody else understoodLaugh again at the stupid jokeI thought you’d probably forgetRemember what I said last timeAnd ask me about it againMaybe we only get ten minutesMaybe we get all afternoonTime doesn’t tell me that you know meWhat you notice does
Pre-chorus
I keep changingRight in front of youDifferent clothesDifferent gamesDifferent things I’m going throughYou don’t have to freezeThe kid I used to beJust keep meetingThe person becoming me
Chorus
It’s the small momentsThe things nobody seesKnowing what makes me light upKnowing what gets too loud for meRemember what I told youAsk me how it turned outYou don’t have to make a perfect memoryJust be hereWhile I’m growing upIt’s the small momentsThat tell meYou know me
Bridge
One day the shoes won’t fit anymoreThe favourite show will changeThe toy I carried everywhereWill disappear one dayI’ll stop asking you to watch meI’ll learn to close my doorAnd you might wonderWhen it happenedHow I got this old
Bridge build
So don’t wait for birthdaysDon’t wait for holidaysDon’t wait for the perfect weekendTo make something countSit beside meListen closelyLearn the world I’m living nowBecause childhood isn’t leavingAll at onceIt’s leavingLittle by little
Final chorus
It’s the small momentsThe things nobody seesKnowing when I need some spaceAnd when I need you next to meRemember what I told youKnow what makes me laughYou don’t have to hold onto my childhoodJust don’t miss itWhile it lastsIt’s the small momentsThe ordinary onesThat quietly becomeEverything
Final lift
Know my worldWhile I’m still showing youKnow my worldWhile I’m still asking you toYou don’t need every answerYou don’t need some perfect planJust keep learning who I am
Outro
One dayI probably won’t rememberWhat we did every timeBut I’ll rememberWhat it felt likeTo be known
Spoken outro
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