Five Years

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

I heard telephones, opera house, favorite melodies

I saw boys, and toys, and 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

I 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 pulled her off

I would think she would have killed them

A soldier with a broken arm

Fixed his stare to the wheels of a Cadillac

A cop knelt down 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, I wanted to get back there

Your face, your race, and 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

Five years, my brain hurts a lot

Five years, that's all 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

Five years, five long years

Five years, it's been five long years

Five years, my brain hurts a lot

Five years, that's what we've got

Five years

Five years, five years, five years

Five years

Oh, five years

Five years, that's all we've got

Five years, my brain hurts a lot

Five years

Five long years, five long years

Five years

Five long years, five long years

Five years

Five long years

Five years

That's all we've got