David Bowie
Five Years
The Rise & Fall Of Ziggy Stardust (1972)

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Pushing through the market square
Em
So many mothers sighing
A7
News had just come over
       C
We had five years left to cry in

News guy wept and told us                             w/ interpolations
Earth was really dying
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 and TV's
My brain hurt like a ware house, it had no room to spare
I had to cram so many things to store everything in there

                  Am
  And all the fat skinny people
  C                      Am
  And all the tall short people
  C                  G
  And all the nobody people
  C                    D
  And all the somebody people
                                   Am      C
  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 pulled her off
I think she would have killed them

A soldier with a broken arm
Fixed his stare to the wheels of a Cadilac
A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest
And a queer threw up at 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
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                     x 4  (stuck <-> surprise)
We've got (five years) my brain hurts a lot
(Five years) that's all we got

(Five years)  x 4

G

beat  (fade out)