"A Town Called Big Nothing" by Elvis Costello

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 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.'

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 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.

Big nothing. (repeat until fade)