GEm
Pushing through the market square, so many mothers sighing
AC
News had just come over, we had five years left to cry in
GEm
News guy wept and told us, earth was really dying
AC
Cried so much his face was wet, then I knew he was not lying
G
I heard telephones, opera house, favorite melodies
Em
I saw boys, toys, electric irons and TV's
A
My brain hurt like a warehouse, it had no room to spare
C
I had to cram so many things to store everything in there
AmCAm
And all the fat-skinny people, and all the tall-short people
CGCD
And all the nobody people, and all the somebody people
AmC
I never thought I'd need so many people
GEm
A girl my age went off her head, hit some tiny children
AC
If the black hadn't a pulled her off, I think she would have killed them
GEm
A soldier with a broken arm, fixed his stare to the wheels of a Cadillac
AC
A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest, and a queer threw up at the sight of that
GEm
I think I saw you in an ice cream parlor, drinking milk shakes cold and long
AC
Smiling and waving and looking so fine, don't think you knew you were in this song
G
And it was cold, and it rained, so I felt like an actor
Em
And I thought of Ma and I wanted to get back there
A
Your face, your race, the way that you talk
C
I kiss you, you're beautiful, I want you to walk
GEm
We got five years, stuck on my eyes - Five years, what a suprise
AC
We got five years, my brain hurts alot - Five years, that's all we got
GEm
We got five years, what a surprise - Five years, stuck on my eyes
AC
We got five years, my brain hurts alot - Five years, that's all we got