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Five Years

from Fair Dinkum? by George Brown

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Pushing through the market square
So many mothers sighing
The news had just come over;
We had five years left to cry in

News guy wept as he told us
Earth was really dying
He cried so much his face was wet
Then I knew he was not lying

I heard telephones, opera house, favorite melodies
I saw boys, toys, electric irons & 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 I would need so many people . . .

A girl my age went off her head
Hit some tiny children
And If the black hadn't a-pulled her off
Well, I think she would have killed them

A soldier with a broken arm;
His fixed stare to the wheels of a Cadillac
A cop knelt & 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 parlor
Drinking milk shakes cold & long
Smiling & waving & looking so fine
I don't 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,
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 . . .

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from Fair Dinkum?, released August 19, 2014
Gitarre & Vokal: George Brown
~Written by David Bowie (1971)
(Arr. by George Brown)

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