A Town Called Big Nothing Lyrics - In Motion Pictures - Elvis Costello

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. 

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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. 

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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)