G
      Pushing through the market square
  Em
      So many mothers sighing
   A2
      News had just come over
                   C
      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, favourite melodies
      I saw boys, toys, 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

                                                 A2                   C
                        And all the fat-skinny people
                                                           A2       C
                        And all the tall-short people
                                                       G         C
                        And all the nobody people
                                                            D2
                        And all the somebody people
                                                                               A2       C
                        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
      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 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 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

                              (same as verse)
                                  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...