Five Years

Pushing through the market square So many mothers sighing News had just come over We had five years left to cry in News guy wept and told us Earth was really dying Cried so much his face was wet Then I knew he wasn't lying I heard telephones, opera house Favourite melodies I saw boys, toys, electric irons And TVs My brain hurt like a warehouse It had no room to spare I had to cram so many things To store everything in there All the fat, skinny peoplе And all the tall, short people And all thе 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 And if the black guy hadn't have pulled her off I sware she would have killed them A soldier with a broken arm Fixed his stare to the wheels of a Cadillac A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest While the Queen threw up at the sight of that I think I saw you in an ice-cream parlour Drinking milk-shakes cold and long Smiling-and-waving-and looking so fine I 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 Five years Five years Five years Five years That's all we've got We've got five years Stuck on my eye 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 Five years My brain hurts a lot Five years That's all we've got We've got five years Stuck on my eyes Five years What a surprise Five years What a surprise Five years Five years Five years Five years