A Town Called Big Nothing
From ElvisCostello
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LyricsBig nothing
He stood in the road outside of town With a broken clockwork toy in his hand A graveyard for childish dreams in his palm A broken lifeline
Big nothing
The mechanical amusement sputtered to life in his fist As he clenched, it whirred and died again It was a cowboy who drew his gun But the pistol was welded to the holster By age and careless children So it struggled and strained And it unwound its own spring
Big nothing
He didn't need tattoos to show where he'd been And who he'd loved It was the same thing that men had cried for That women had dyed their hair for The cellophane illusion of a starry sky Stretched over an open sore
Big nothing
He thought about his lost daughter The way her eyes would alight at the greedy circus barker's blackmail song How he wanted to smash her skull in when she parroted back "Tell mommy; tell poppy; you need this little dolly"
Big nothing
Big nothing
The smoky voice of the petaled girl woke him long enough There was too much light in the room, so he unscrewed the bulb She took him to bed like an adopted dog
Big nothing
She lit sickly incense as he tried to tell himself The resemblance were pure and coincidental He unleashed his grip on the toy and all it meant to him And it wound down forever
Big nothing
He woke up in a sweat the next day With her smile still painted on his mouth He walked out of a town called Big Nothing
Big nothing Big nothing Big nothing Big nothing Big nothing
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