收聽Elvis Costello的A Town Called A Big Nothing歌詞歌曲

A Town Called A Big Nothing

Elvis Costello1987年12月4日

A Town Called A Big Nothing 歌詞

 

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

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 '

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

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