Five Years Lyrics - Singles - Little Joe Gould

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, 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 

I saw 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 

I 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, I think she would have killed them 

A soldier with a broken arm, fixed 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 

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

We've got five years, stuck on my eyes 

We've got five years, what a surprise 

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

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