《A Town Called A Big Nothing》歌词

歌曲： A Town Called A Big Nothing

所属专辑：In Motion Pictures

歌手： Elvis Costello

时长： 05:46

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

Big nothing [00:01:56]

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

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

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

A broken lifeline [00:02:10]

Big nothing [00:02:19]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Big nothing [00:02:38]

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

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

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

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

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

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

Big nothing [00:03:01]

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

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

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

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

Big nothing [00:03:24]

Big nothing [00:04:18]

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

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

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

Big nothing [00:04:41]

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

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

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

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

Big nothing [00:04:59]

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

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

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

Big Nothing[00:05:22]