David Bowie - Five Years

David Bowie - Five Years

Copyright - RCA Victor

"Five Years" is a song written by David Bowie and released in 1972. It was the opening track on the album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.

The song tells of an Earth doomed to destruction in five years and the aftermath of this knowledge. Bowie is rumored to have chosen the length of time, five years, as a result of a dream in which his deceased father told him he must never fly again and would die in five years.

Lyrics: Pushing thru the market square, so many mothers sighing
News had just come over, we had five years left to cry in
News guy wept and told us, earth was really dying
Cried so much his face was wet, then I knew he was not lying
I heard telephones, opera house, favourite melodies
I saw boys, toys electric irons and t.v.s
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 Id need so many people

A girl my age went off her head, hit some tiny children
If the black hadnt a-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 milk shakes cold and long
Smiling and waving and looking so fine, dont think
You knew you were in this song
And it was cold and it rained so I felt like an actor
And I thought of ma and I wanted to get back there
Your face, your race, the way that you talk
I kiss you, youre beautiful, I want you to walk

Weve got five years, stuck on my eyes
Five years, what a surprise
Weve got five years, my brain hurts a lot
Five years, thats all weve got
Weve got five years, what a surprise
Five years, stuck on my eyes
Weve got five years, my brain hurts a lot
Five years, thats all weve got
Weve got five years, stuck on my eyes
Five years, what a surprise
Weve got five years, my brain hurts a lot
Five years, thats all weve got
Weve got five years, what a surprise
Weve got five years, stuck on my eyes
Weve got five years, my brain hurts a lot
Five years, thats all weve got
Five years
Five years
Five years
Five years

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[Revan0357]

One of my favorite Bowie songs!!

[sexpistol1979]

0 dislikes, thats what we like too see (:

[MeshMo]

I can not believe all these great tracks are in one album. I am in awe, Mr Bowie.

[blondiebabeo]

i love bowie

[dagoninfinite]

I've been searching high and low for more music like this. There simply isn't any that I'm not already familiar with.

[jonathanrhill78]

Bowie did a lot of ordinary songs. He also did a lot of good songs. But every now and again he produced a piece of brilliance which set him apart from the rest and which earned to him the right to be called one of the 20th century's great performers and artists. This is one of those moments. Awesome.

[Gusdocs1]

what a great song

[jomeara75]

If you're baked, this is the best fucking song ever

[michaelp3138]

love the desperation and urgency in his vocals as this song closes

[OneTheyForgot]

we've got .. 1 year .. :(

[allogenes37]

pure awesomness!



[alifelesscritic]

...i always imagin him singing it when he was serious about suicide...