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Five Years

David Bowie

 

G                                  Em

 Pushing through the market square,   so many mothers sighing

A                        C

 News had just come over,  we had five years left to cry in

G                          Em

 News guy wept and told us, earth was really dying

A                              C

 Cried so much his face was wet, then I knew he was not lying

 

         G

I heard telephones, opera house, favorite melodies

       Em

I saw boys, toys, electric irons and T.V.'s

     A

My brain hurt like a warehouse, it had no room to spare

           C

I had to cram so many things to store everything in there

 

                         Am (1)      C (1)

and all the fat-skinny people,

                          Am (1)     C (1)

and all the tall-short people,

                    G (1)      C (1)

and all the nobody people,

                      D7

and all the somebody people

                                   Am (1)       C (1)

I never thought I'd need so many people

 

G                                Em

 A girl my age went off her head, hit some tiny children

A                                     C

 If the black hadn't a-pulled her off, I think she would have killed them

G                            Em

 A soldier with a broken arm, fixed his stare to the wheels of a

Cadillac

A                                            C

 A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest, and a queer threw up at the sight of that

 

G                                         Em

 I think I saw you in an ice-cream parlor, drinking milk shakes cold and long

A                                       C

 Smiling and waving and looking so fine, don't think you knew you were in this song

 

            G

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

        Em

And I thought of Ma and I wanted to get back there

      A

Your face, your race, the way that you talk

   C

I kiss you, you're beautiful, I want you to walk

 

 

G

Five years

Em

Five years

A

Five years

C

Five years

 

End on G

This file is the author's own work and represents his interpretation of this song. It's intended solely for private study, scholarship or research.