Five Years Lyrics - Fish

Pushing through 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 

Earth she was really dying 

Cried so much his face was wet 

Well, I knew he wasn't lying 

I heard telephones, opera house, favorite melodies 

I saw boys and toys, electric irons, TVs 

My brain felt 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 

Christ, I never thought I'd need so many people 

Girl my age went off her head 

She hit some tiny children 

And if the black hadn't pulled her off 

Then I think I know she would have killed them 

I saw a soldier with a broken arm 

Staring to the wheels of a Cadillac 

A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest 

And a queer well he threw up at the sight of that 

I think I saw you in an ice-cream parlor 

Drinking milk shakes cold and long 

Smiling and waving and looking so fine 

I 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 ace, the way that you talk 

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

We got five years, stuck on my eyes 

Five years, what a surprise 

Five years, my brain hurts a lot 

We got five years, that's all we've got 

Five years, that's all we've got 

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