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Smaller

by Jo Rodriguez

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>xenocrat "Is that the fucking voice of a boy or a girl?"
Its the voice of Jo fucking Rodriguez making me cry at 8AM on a Thursday.
A painful, impactful but also beautiful song. Well mixed and produced, the rhythm both in the instrumental and the vocals is driving and it aches where we know we're healing.
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Since I was 12 I was aware I was a girl
It took years to convince the whole rest of the world
Each new person that I meet every single fucking week
Is a litmus test of how I am perceived

I’m never too surprised when they call me sir
Is this the fucking face of a boy or girl?
Ask a stranger on the street to tell you what they think
And half the time they aren’t even sure
Cause I got

Hairs on my head, and on my face
I want to break every sheet of glass in this
Place I made home not long ago
I want to break every single bone in my
Body tonight, to make it right
To make myself feel like I’m small enough

When people yell at me my instinct is to shrink
I never raise my voice when saying what I think
I let people walk all over me without making a stink
And I don't think I should do that anymore

I open up my mouth and I'm insecure
Is this the fucking voice of a boy or girl?
I can never really say
just what what I wanna say
Without it passing through the filter of the world
So now I'm

Making the choice to raise my voice
I can't avoid conflict for forever
This time I know, I've got to go
Ive got to take every opportunity
To tell the truth, my point of view
And I don't care if you
think I'm small enough

As I get older
As I get wiser
As I get stronger
I won’t get smaller
As I go along
This jagged path I'm on
I can tell you I
Won't get smaller

As I get older
As I get wiser
As I get stronger
I won't get smaller
As I go along
This jagged path I'm on
I can tell you I
Won't get smaller

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released February 29, 2024
Written and recorded by Jo Rodriguez, with backing vocals from Jordan Daniel Trent
Mixed and mastered by Wes Meadows

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Flowerpot Records Ohio

A record label based out of Berea, Ohio, putting out CDs and tapes from artists around the country.

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