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Elvis Costello - A Town Called a 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 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 his own spring.
  • Big nothing.
  • He didn't 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 barker's 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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