David Bowie - Five Years

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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[Love60sMusic]

Best part 0:00 till 4:43

[SuperILUVMJ]

I LOVVEEE the PASSION in his voice starting @3:50- the end..i was like "SING IT DAVID! SING IT!!!!"

[Rozmatronicles]

This song gives me eargasms 

[MSContin2able]

I want to die to this song

[JayLeePoe]

Great song, just wish this was a better quality file to share with people... it's times like this that being a non-contributor makes me feel like an ass.

[VH214]

"...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.." Me neither. Awesome line.

[jaeGT7]

@animalista1965 you are very lucky! :)

[yayaredhot]

Life, not more not less.

[wemorris1001]

@ResidentPyro I'll join you. (For being a pedant.)

[ResidentPyro]

@wemorris1001 Oh, crap - how did I manage to forget about that?!

Excuse me, I'll just go introduce my face to a convenient wall now.

[wemorris1001]

@ResidentPyro Are you joking? That's when Soul Love comes on!

[ResidentPyro]

It really starts to suck around 4:44, though....