Five Years Lyrics - David Bowie

1 Pushing through the market square

2 So many mothers sighing

3 News had just come over

4 We had five years left to cry in

5 News guy wept and told us

6 Earth was really dying

7 Cried so much his face was wet

8 Then I knew he was not lying

9 I heard telephones, opera house, favourite melodies

10 I saw boys, toys, electric irons and TVs

11 My brain hurt like a warehouse, it had no room to spare

12 I had to cram so many things to store everything in there

13 And all the fat-skinny people

14 And all the tall-short people

15 And all the nobody people

16 And all the somebody people

17 I never thought I'd need so many people

18 A girl my age went off her head

19 Hit some tiny children

20 If the black hadn't a-pulled her off

21 I think she would have killed them

22 A soldier with a broken arm

23 Fixed his stare to the wheels of a Cadillac

24 A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest

25 And a queer threw up at the sight of that

26 I think I saw you in an ice-cream parlour

27 Drinking milk shakes, cold and long

28 Smiling and waving and looking so fine

29 Don't think you knew you were in this song

30 And it was cold and it rained so I felt like an actor

31 And I thought of Ma and I wanted to get back there

32 Your face, your race, the way that you talk

33 I kiss you, you're beautiful, I want you to walk

34 We've got five years, stuck on my eyes

35 Five years, what a surprise

36 We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot

37 Five years, that's all we've got

38 We've got five years, what a surprise

39 Five years, stuck on my eyes

40 We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot

41 Five years, that's all we've got

42 We've got five years, stuck on my eyes

43 Five years, what a surprise

44 We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot

45 Five years, that's all we've got

46 We've got five years, what a surprise

47 We've got five years, stuck on my eyes

48 We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot

49 Five years, that's all we've got

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