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