Five Years

Five years
A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest
My brain hurt like a warehouse, it had no room to spare
A girl my age went off her head, hit some tiny children
I saw boys, toys, electric irons and TV's
Five years, stuck on my eyes
We've got five years, stuck on my eyes
And all the nobody people, and all the somebody people

We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot
Your face, your race, the way that you talk
We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot

Never thought I'd need so many people
Smiling and waving and looking so fine
If the black hadn't a-pulled her off, I think she would have killed them
We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot
Five years
I heard telephones, opera house, favorite melodies
I think I saw you in an ice cream parlor
We've got five years, stuck on my eyes
Don't think you knew you were in this song
We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot
We've got five years, stuck on my eyes
Five years, that's all we've got

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

We've got five years, what a surprise

And the queer threw up at the sight of that
I had to cram so many things to store everything in there
I kiss you, you're beautiful, I want you to walk

Cried so much his face was wet, then I knew he was not lying
Five years
Five years, that's all we've got
Five years, that's all we've got
We've got five years, what a surprise
News guy wept and told us, earth was really dying
Five years, that's all we've got
And all the fat, skinny people, and all the tall, short people
Five years, what a surprise
Drinking milk shakes cold and long
And I thought of ma and I wanted to get back there
A soldier with a broken arm, fixed his stare to the wheels of a Cadillac
Five years, what a surprise