Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Five Years, artist - Cowboy Junkies. Date of issue: 24.03.2022
Song language: English
Five Years |
| 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 was really dying |
| Cried so much, his face was wet |
| Then I knew he was not lying |
| I heard telephones, opera house, favourite melodies |
| Saw boys and toys, electric irons, TVs |
| 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’d need so many people |
| A girl my age went off her head |
| Hit some tiny children |
| If the black hadn’t a-pulled her off |
| I think she would have killed them |
| I saw 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 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 got five years, stuck on my eyes |
| We got five years, what a surprise |
| We got five years, my brain hurts a lot |
| We got five years, that’s all we’ve got |