Five Years (2012 Remaster)

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 was not lying

I heard telephones Opera house Favorite melodies I saw boys Toys Electric irons and TV'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 Never thought I'd need so many people

A girl my age went off her head Hit some tiny children If the black hadn't a-pulled her off I think 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 And the 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 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 We've got five years Stuck on my eyes We've got five years My brain hurts a lot Five years That's all we've got Five years Five years Five years Five years