Five Years lyrics - Cowboy Junkies

(originally by David Bowie)

Pushing through the market square

So many mothers sighing

News just come over

We had five years left to cry in (Cry in)

News guy wept and told us

Earth was really dying (Dying)

Cried so much his face was wet

Then I knew he was not lying (Lying)

I heard telephones, opera house, favourite melodies

I saw boys, toys, electric irons and TVs

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

I had to cram so many things to store everything in there

And all the fat, skinny people

And all the tall, short people

And all the nobody people

And all the somebody people

I never thought I'd need so many people

A girl my age went off her head

Hit some tiny children

If the Black hadn't have pulled her off

I think she would have killed them

A soldier with a broken arm

Fixed his stare to the wheels of a Cadillac

A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest

And a queer threw up at the sight of that

I think I saw you in an ice-cream parlour

Drinking milkshakes cold and long

Smiling and waving and looking so fine

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

And it was cold and it rained, I felt like an actor

'Til thought of Ma and I wanted to get back there

Your face, your race

The way that you talk

I kiss you, you're beautiful

I want you to walk

We've got five years, stuck on my eyes

Five years, what a surprise

We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot

Five years, that's all we've got

We've got five years, stuck on my eyes

Five years, what a surprise

We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot

Five years, that's all we've got

We've got five years

Five years, what a surprise

We've got five years

Five years, that's all we've got

Five years

We've got five years