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