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