David Bowie - Five years

^G Pushing through the market square, ^Em so many mothers sighing ^A News had just come over, ^C/G we had five years left to cry in ^G News guy wept and told us, ^Em earth was really dying ^A Cried so much his face was wet, ^C/G 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 ^G/C I had to cram so many things to store everything in there And all the fat-^Amskinny people, ^C/G and all the tall-short ^Ampeople, ^C/G and all the nobody ^Gpeople, ^C/G and all the somebody ^D7people I never thought I'd need so many ^Ampeople ^C/G

^G A girl my age went off her head, ^Em hit some tiny children ^A If the black hadn't a-pulled her off, ^C/G I think she would have killed them ^G A soldier with a broken arm, ^Em fixed his stare to the wheels of a Cadillac ^A A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a pries^C/Gt,and a queer Threw up at the sight of that ^G I think I saw you in an ice-cream parlor, ^Em drinking milk shakes cold and long ^A Smiling and waving and looking so fine, ^C/G 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 ^G/C I kiss you, you're beautiful, I want you to walk

^G We've got five years, stuck on my eyes ^E We've got five years, what a surprise ^A We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot ^G/C We've got five years, that's all we've got