Five Years - David Bowie
G Em
Pushing through the market square so many mothers sighing
A C
News had just come over we had five years left to cry in
G Em
News guy wept and told us earth was really dying
A C
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
Am C Am
And all the fat-skinny people and all the tall-short people
C G C D
And all the nobody people and all the somebody people
C
I never thought I'd need so many people
G Em
A girl my age went off her head hit some tiny children
A C
If the black hadn't a pulled her off I think she would have killed them
G Em
A soldier with a broken arm fixed his stare to the wheels of a Cadillac
A C
A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest and a queer threw up at the sight of that
G Em
I think I saw you in an ice cream parlor drinking milk shakes cold and long
A C
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
G Em
We got five years stuck on my eyes - Five years what a suprise
A C
We got five years my brain hurts alot - Five years that's all we got
G Em
We got five years what a surprise - Five years stuck on my eyes
A C
We got five years my brain hurts alot - Five years that's all we got