Five Years |: | | | |bass Pushing through the market square, A girl my age went off her head | | | | | so many mothers sighing hit some tiny children (no C 2nd time) | | | | | News had just come over we had If the black had not pulled her off I | | | | | five years left to cry in think she would have killed them | | | | | News guy wept and told us A soldier with a broken arm fixed his | | | | | Earth was really dying stare to the wheels of a Cadillac | | | | | Cried so much his face was wet, then I A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest and a | | | | | knew he was not lying I heard queer threw up at the sight of that | | | | | telephones opera house, favourite melodies I saw I think I saw you in an ice cream parlour | | | | | boys, toys electric irons and T.V's My drinking milk shakes cold and long | | | | | brain hurt like a warehouse, it had no room to spare..... I had to Smiling and waving and looking so fine | | | | | I had to cram so many things to store evrything in there and all the fat Don't think you knew you were in this song |(next section) | | | | | skinny people and all the tall short | | | | | people And all the no bod y | | | | | people and all the some bod y | | | | | people I never thought I'd need so man y | | | | :| people (back to start) (Continued from above) | | | | | Don't think you knew you were in this song And it was | | | | | cold and it rained so I felt like an actor and I | | | | | thought of Ma and I wanted to get back there your | | | | | face your race the way that you talk I | | | | | kiss you, you're beautiful, I want you to walk We got |: | | | | Five years stuck on my eyes | | | | | Five years what a surprise, We got | | | | | Five years my brain hurts a lot We got | | | | :| Five years that's all we've got We got