Five Years

C
pushing through the market square

Am
so many mothers sighing

Dm
news had just come over, we have

F
Five years left of crying

C
news guy wept and told us

        Am
he said earth, was really dying

Dm
cried so much his face was wet

       F
then i knew, he was not lying

         C
i heard telephones, opera house, favourite melodies

           Am
there were boys toys, electric guns and TVs

 F
my brain hurt like a warehouse, it had no room to spare

         Dm
i had to cram so many things to store everything in there

               F
and all the fat, skinny people

Dm                        F
and all the tall short, people

Dm                   C
and all the nobody people

F                       G
and all the somebody people

                                Dm      F
never thought i'd need, so many people

C
girl my age went off her head

Am
hit some tiny children

Dm
and if the black hadn't have pulled her off

        F
then i think, she would have killed them

C
soldier with a broken arm

Am
used to stare into the wheels of a cadillac

Dm
cop knelt to kiss the feet of a priest

       F
and a queer threw up at the sight of that, well

C
think i saw you in an ice-cream parlour

Am
drinking milkshakes cold and long

Dm
smiling and waving and looking so fine

F
don't think you knew you were in this song

C
and it was cold, and it rained, so i felt like an actor

Am
and i thought of ma, and i wanted to get back there

Dm
your face, your waist, the way that you talk

F
i miss you you're beautiful

C
we got five years stuck on my eyes

Am
five years, what a surprise, we got

Dm
five years, my brain hurts alot

F
five years, that's all we got

C               C
we got, five years