Five Years

Pushing thru' the market square So many mother 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 Then I knew he was not lying. I heard telephones, opera house, favorite melodies I saw boys, toys, electric irons and T.V's My brain hurt like a ware house, it had no room to spare I had to cram so many things to store ev'ry thing in there And all the fat 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 had not pulled her off I think she would have killed them A soldier with a broken arm Fixed his state to the wheels of a Cadillac A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest And a queer threw up at 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 got Five years stuck on my eyes Five years what a surprise we got Five years my brain hurts a lot Five years that's all we got we've got