Pushing through the market square

So many mothers sighing

News had just come over

We had five years left to cry in (cry in)

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News guy wept and told us

Earth was really dying (dying)

Cried so much his face was wet

Then I knew he was not lying (lying)

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I heard telephones, opera house, favourite melodies

I saw boys, toys, electric irons 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

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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

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A girl my age went off her head

Hit some tiny children

If the black hadn’t have pulled her off

I think she would have killed them

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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

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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

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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

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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

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We’ve got five years, what a surprise

Five years, stuck on my eyes

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

Five years, that’s all we’ve got

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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

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We’ve got five years, what a surprise

We’ve got five years, stuck on my eyes

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

Five years, that’s all we’ve got

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Five years

Five years

Five years

Five years