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The Little Picture (feat. Ruby Landen)

from The Last American by Ali Aslam

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You can count up the years
With the things that I've tried
To make a life better
Once step at a time
And the things that would stick
Were never that big
But it's the small ones that matter
In the scheme of things

Yeah it's the small things that matter

And I’ve ached for a love
That was never as grand
As that little picture
You hold in your hand
The kind where you could give up
All of your glory
Just to be a verse
In an unwritten story

All just to be a verse

And every father says
"Look at my baby now
And I would do it all again
If I could have one more round"

But that's not the way
That it always goes
There are dark rooms and quiet days
And unspoken hopes
When you tell yourself
To look at the big picture
But your hope is a small one
You lost in a whisper

Oh your hope is a small one

And after years down a road
That you can’t regret
Still, there are days
That you want reset
You think one thread cut could change
How it all unfolds
But there's a thousand threads
In the hangman’s rope

Oh there's a thousand threads

And every father says
"It could be different now"
And I remember when he said it
I would believe him now

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from The Last American, released October 30, 2020

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Ali Aslam Brooklyn, New York

Ali Aslam is a Brooklyn based singer -songwriter. He a Pakistani Muslim-American, and explores the relationship between his background and his country, in his debut work, The Last American. He describes the sound as "supersonic folk" and sonically dives into the tropes of rock, indie pop, new wave, and R&B to craft something new, challenging, and wholly American ... more

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