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

And I knew he wasn't lying

I heard telephones opera house favourite melody

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

And all the fat and 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-a pulled her off

Well 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 parlour

Drinking milkshakes 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

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

We've got five years stuck on my eyes

We've got five years what a surprise

We've got five years my brain hurts a lot

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

We've got five years stuck on my eyes

We've got five years what a surprise

We've got five years my brain hurts a lot

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

We've got five years stuck on my eyes

We've got five years what a surprise

We've got five years my brain hurts a lot

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

We've got five years

Five years

Five years

Five years

That's all we've got