Five Years (Live)

Pushing through the market square

So many mothers sighing

News had just come over

We had five years left to sigh in

News guy wept when he told us

Earth was really dying

Cried so much that his face was wet

Then I knew he was not lying

I heard telephones, opera house, favorite melodies

I saw toys and boys, 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

All the fat-skinny people, and all the tall-short people

And all the nobody people, and all the somebody people

Never thought I needed so many people

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 down at 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 milkshakes cold and long

Smilin' and waving and lookin' so fine

Don't think you knew you were in my 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

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, my brain hurts a lot

We've got five years and that's all we've got

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