Lyrics:

(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 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 itstruggled 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'

(Big Nothing)

(Big Nothing)

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

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