《A Town Called A Big Nothing》歌词

[00:00:00] A Town Called A Big Nothing - Elvis Costello

[00:01:56] Big nothing

[00:02:00] He stood in the road outside of town

[00:02:03] With a broken clockwork toy in his hand

[00:02:07] A graveyard for childish dreams in his palm

[00:02:10] A broken lifeline

[00:02:19] Big nothing

[00:02:23] The mechanical amusement sputtered to life in his fist

[00:02:26] As he clenched it whirred and died again

[00:02:29] It was a cowboy who drew his gun

[00:02:30] But the pistol was welded to the holster

[00:02:33] By age and careless children

[00:02:34] So it struggled and strained

[00:02:36] And it unwound its own spring

[00:02:38] Big nothing

[00:02:42] He didn't need tattoos to show where he'd been

[00:02:44] And who he'd loved

[00:02:46] It was the same thing that men had cried for;

[00:02:48] That women had dyed their hair for

[00:02:51] The cellophane illusion of a starry sky

[00:02:54] Stretched over an open sore

[00:03:01] Big nothing

[00:03:05] He thought about his lost daughter

[00:03:06] The way her eyes would alight at the greedy circus barker's blackmail song

[00:03:11] How he wanted to smash her skull in when she parroted back

[00:03:14] 'Tell mommy; tell poppy; you need this little dolly '

[00:03:24] Big nothing

[00:04:18] Big nothing

[00:04:22] The smoky voice of the petaled girl woke him long enough

[00:04:26] There was too much light in the room so he unscrewed the bulb

[00:04:30] She took him to bed like an adopted dog

[00:04:41] Big nothing

[00:04:45] She lit sickly incense as he tried to tell himself

[00:04:48] The resemblance were pure and coincidental

[00:04:51] He unleashed his grip on the toy and all it meant to him

[00:04:53] And it wound down forever

[00:04:59] Big nothing

[00:05:05] He woke up in a sweat the next day

[00:05:12] With her smile still painted on his mouth

[00:05:16] He walked out of a town called Big Nothing

[00:05:22] Big Nothing