A Town Called Big Nothing (Really Big Nothing)

[Verse]

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 its own spring

Big nothing

He didn't need tattoos to show where he'd been

And who he'd 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 in 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 himself

The resemblance were pure and coincidental

He unleashed his grip on the toy and 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]