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