Pushing through the market square
So many mothers sighing
News had just come over
We have five years left to sigh in
News guy wept when he told us
Earth was really dying
Cried so much that his face was wet
Then I knew he was not lying
I heard telephones, opera house
favourite melodies
I saw toys, boys,
electric irons and TVs
Brain hurt like a warehouse
Had no room to spare
Had to cram so many things to store
Everything in there
Fat-skinny people
Tall-short people
Somebody people
Nobody 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,
Well, 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
And 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
Five years
What a surprise
Five years
My brain hurts a lot
Five years
That's all we've got
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
God, that's all we've got
We've got five years
Stuck on my eyes
Five years
What a surprise
Five years
My brain hurts a lot
Five years
That's all we've got