Mo Kenney - Five Years Lyrics
Pushing through the market squareSo many mothers sighingNews had just come overWe had five years left to cry inNews guy wept and told usEarth was really dyingCried so much his face was wetAnd I knew he was not lyingI heard telephones, opera house, favourite melodiesI saw boys, toys electric irons and T.V.’sMy brain felt like a warehouse, I had no room to spareI had to cram so many thingsTo store everything in thereAnd all the fat-skinny peopleAnd all the tall short peopleAnd all the nobody peopleAnd all the somebody peopleI never thought I’d need so many peopleA girl my age went off her headHit some tiny childrenIf the black hadn’t a-pulled her offI think she would have killed themA soldier with a broken armFixed his stare to the wheels of a CadillacA cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priestAnd the queer threw up at the sight of thatI think I saw you in an ice-cream parlourDrinking milk shakes cold and longSmiling and waving and looking so fineDon’t think you knew you were in this songAnd it was cold and it rained so I felt like an actorAnd I thought of Ma and I wanted to get back thereYour face, your race, the way that you talkI kiss you, you’re beautiful, I want you to walkWe’ve got five years, stuck on my eyesFive years, what a surpriseWe’ve got five years, my brain hu
