five years

pushing through the market square so many mothers sighing news had just come over, we have Five years left of crying news guy wept and told us he said 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 there were boys toys, electric guns 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, skinny people and all the tall short, people and all the nobody people and all the somebody people never thought i'd need, so many people girl my age went off her head hit some tiny children and if the black hadn't have pulled her off then i think, she would have killed them soldier with a broken arm used to stare into the wheels of a cadillac cop knelt to kiss the feet of a priest and a queer threw up at the sight of that, well 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 waist, the way that you talk i miss you you're beautiful we got five years stuck on my eyes five years, what a surprise, we got five years, my brain hurts alot five years, that's all we got (ending chords are Gs) we got, five years