Pushing through the market square,
so many mothers sighing
(sighing)
News had just come over,
we had five years left to cry in
(cry in)
News guy wept and told us,
earth was really dying
(dying)
Cried so much his face was wet,
then I knew
he was not lying
(lying)
I heard telephones,
opera house,
favorite melodies
I saw boys,
toys
electric irons
and T.V.'s
My brain hurt like a warehouse,
it had no room to spare
I had to cram so many things
to store everything in there
And all the fat skinny people,
and all the tall short people
And all the nobody people,
and all the somebody people
I never thought I'd need so many people
A girl my age went off her head,
hit some tiny children
If black
had NOT a pulled her off,
I think she would have killed them
A soldier with a broken arm,
fi ed his stare
to the wheels of a Cadillac
A cop knelt
and kissed the
feet of a priest,
and a queer Threw up
at the sight of that
I think I saw you in an
ice cream parlor,
drinking milk shakes cold and long
Smiling
and waving
and looking so fine,
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've got
five years,
stuck on my eyes
five years,
what a surprise
We've got
five years,
my brain hurts a lot
five years,
that's all we've got
We've got
five years,
what a surprise
five years,
stuck on my EYES
we've got
five years
my brain hurts a lot
five years,
that's all we've got
we've got
FIIVE years,
stuck on myyy EYES
five years
WHAT A SURPRICE
We've got
FIIIVE YEARS
MY BRAIN HURTS A LOT
FIIIVE years
that's all we've got
we've got
FIIIVE YEARS
what a surprice
we've got
five years
STUCK ON MY EYES
we've got
FIIVE YEARS
MY BRAIN HURTS A LOT
FIIIVE YEARS
THAT'S ALL WE'VE GOT
five years
five years
(ah five years)
five years...
(five years)
