Everyone is busy with the regular routine
The sniper just takes his aim
Everyone is window shopping, no one is amazed

Even if he hit you, you'd still think it's just a graze
You go to a movie, you go to a show
You think that you're living, you don't really know

Big tears mean nothing
You can count them as they fall
Big tears mean nothing

When you're lying in your coffin
Tell me who's been taken in


Oh, you talk about the new boss automatic clause
But of course they make it all up for you
Always fascinated by the weird edge of town

Come home disappointed every time they put you down
Laughing with the old boys, saying that it's all noise


I suppose big tears mean nothing
You can count them as they fall
Big tears mean nothing

When you're lying in your coffin
Tell me who's been taken in


All the buttons of my overcoat
They have fallen off one by one
You wouldn't even like me if you'd never had a drink

You wouldn't even like me if you never stopped to think
Standing in the shadow, turning wives to widows


Don't you know big tears mean nothing
You can count them as they fall
Big tears mean nothing

When you're lying in your coffin
Tell me who's been taken in
Tell me, me or yous been taken in

Tell me, tell me, tell me