Pushing through 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 she was really dying   Cried so much his face was wet   Well, I knew he wasn't lying      I heard telephones, opera house, favorite melodies   I saw boys and toys, electric irons, TVs   My brain felt 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   Christ, I never thought I'd need so many people      Girl my age went off her head   She hit some tiny children   And if the black hadn't pulled her off   Then I think I know she would have killed them      I saw a soldier with a broken arm   Staring to the wheels of a Cadillac   A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest   And a queer well he threw up at the sight of that      I think I saw you in an ice-cream parlor   Drinking milk shakes cold and long   Smiling and waving and 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 ace, the way that you talk   Well, I kiss you, you're beautiful, I want you to walk      We got five years, stuck on my eyes   Five years, what a surprise   Five years, my brain hurts a lot   We got five years, that's all we've got      Five years, that's all we've got   Five years   Five years   Five years      Five years   Five years   Five years   Five years      Five years   Five years   Five years   Five years      Five years   Five years   Five years   Five years      Five years