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Elvis Costello - A Town Called Big Nothing Lyrics

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  • Big 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 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 his own spring.
  • Big nothing.
  • He didnt need tattoos to show where he had been and who he had 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 barkers blackmail song; how he wanted to smash her skull
  • When she parroted back, tell mommy; tell poppy; you need this little
  • Dolly.
  • Big nothing. (x2)
  • 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 if the resemblance was pure
  • And coincidental. he unleashed his grip on the toy, 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. (repeat until fade)

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