Both Little Big C and Best That I Knew How were entered in the ROCK/INDIE category of the 2022 Australian Songwriting Contest. One of them has made it into the short list, but I haven’t been told which one yet. The top 30 selection is expected to be announced by the end of June 2023.
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Little Big C was re-mixed and re-mastered June 2023.
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”Early in 2021, when I was first experimenting with GarageBand, I recorded a version of this song. It was a terrible recording. My singing was never close to the note I intended and it didn’t even maintain a consistent tempo. The song wasn’t ready to be recorded and I didn’t know enough to do it justice.
Most of the lyrics have been re-written. Hopefully improved. I’m not sure why but the production took a very long time to complete, and even now I think I should re-do the vocals and change the arrangement. But I think that after every song so I’ve learned not to take it too seriously.
I wrote the song after getting an unfortunate diagnosis.
Little Big C
Verse 1:
Walking along, minding my business
Pretty much an ordinary day to me
When I encountered a remarkably small
A diminutive little big C
Verse 2:
It hit me as an almighty interruption
In the middle of my day to day
It didn’t seem to make any kind of sense
How could I be sick when I was feeling Ok
Chorus:
Now I find myself inside the system
The medical mechanical machinery
All i want is to get out alive
Minus that little bitty ol’ C
Verse 3:
I’m not one to bemoan my fate
Or say “how could this have happened to me”
Maybe it’s genetic maybe it’s just bad luck
Doesn’t seem to matter to the Little Big C
Verse 4:
People tell me if I change the way the way I think
Or the things that I eat and this will all go away
Nice to think it all could be that simple
But I’m pretty sure C doesn’t roll that way
Chorus:
I still find myself inside the system
The medical mechanical machinery
All i want is to get out alive
Minus that little bitty ol’ C
Bridge:
The doc read out some numbers
Such and such percent
At the time i couldn’t puzzle out
What it was he meant
Cuz I don’t think I heard another word
After I heard big C
But pretty soon all those numbers
Became important to me
Verse 5:
I’m not the first that ever got this message
And I know that I won’t be the last
Everything is moving so impossibly slowly
But somehow it’s feeling too damn fast
Verse 6:
So far I’ve been lucky – dodged a bullet
Haven’t needed chemo or surgery
But I’ve still got another five years
Till they let me out of the machinery
Chorus:
And I still find myself inside the system
The medical mechanical machinery
All i want is to get out alive
Minus that little bitty ol’ C
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