Pushing thru 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 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 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

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

A girl my age went off her head Hit some tiny
children If the black hadn't a-pulled her off And
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A soldier with a broken armfixed 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

Well, 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 miss you, you're beautiful

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.