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 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

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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

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

If the resemblance as 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

Big nothing

Big nothing

Big nothing

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