Not So Big

from Lincoln's Hat by Horchata Network

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Everyone thinks that you're so tall
But you're just one thousand four hundred and fifty feet high
That's just about a quarter of a mile, just the length of three city blocks if you fell down.

Horizontal-Vertical Illusion
You're not so big, you're not so big.

It would take nine of you to reach the Titanic
Twenty five of you to reach Challenger Deep
Twenty three thousand of you to reach outer space
Eight hundred sixty nine thousand to reach the moon.

Horizontal-Vertical Illusion
You're not so big, you're not so big.
You're just taller than I am.

Watching TV on an old CRT
Those big and heavy square looking old school TVs
But they're not really square, they're really four by three,
They're wider than they're tall, please just trust me.

Horizontal-Vertical Illusion

All of the Star Wars movies that you've seen
Are 2.35 times as wide as they're tall
We evolved to process the horizon line
Because there weren't predator or prey up in the air.

Take Lincoln's Hat, set it down,
Is the hat taller than the width of the brim?
You'd think that it is, that it's taller than wide,
But the height and width are both exactly the same.

Horizontal-Vertical Illusion

But now let's say he bought a hat that was taller
But they kept on using the exact same brim.
The cloth in the hat would have to shrink and stretch
because psychology states that they would still be the same.

Horizontal-Vertical Illusion
You're not so big, you're not so big.
Because you are just a hat.

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from Lincoln's Hat, released March 1, 2018
Music by Sam Swanson and Brian Peters
Lyrics by Brian Peters

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Horchata Network is the collaboration between Brian Fife, Brian Peters, and Sam Swanson.

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