Five Years (2002 Remastered Version)

Pushing through the market square

So many mothers sighing

News had just come over

We have five years left to cry

News guy wept and told us

Earth is really dying

Cried so much his face was wet

Then I knew he was not lying

I heard telephones opera house favourite melodies

I saw boys toys electric irons and T Vs

My brain hurt like a warehouse

It has no room to spare

I had to cram so many things

To store everything in there

All the fat-skinny people

All the tall-short people

All the nobody people

All the somebody people

I never thought I'd need so many people

A girl of my age went off her head

Hit some tiny children

If the black hadn't pulled her off

I think she would have killed them

A soldier with a broken arm

Fixed his stare to the wheel 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 parlour

Drinking milk shakes cold and long

Smiling and waving and looking so fine

Don't think you knew you were in a 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

Five years my brain hurts a lot

Five years that's all we've got

We've got five year 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

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