G 
  Pushing through the market square 
Em 
  So many mothers sighing 
Am 
  News had just come over, we have 
C 
  Five years left of crying 
 
G 
  News guy wept and told us 
          Em 
  He said earth, was really dying 
Am 
  Cried so much his face was wet 
         C 
  Then i knew, he was not lying 
 
           G 
  I heard telephones, opera house, favourite melodies 
             Em 
  There were boys toys, electric guns and TVs 
   C 
  My brain hurt like a warehouse, it had no room to spare 
           Am 
  I had to cram so many things to store everything in there 
                 C 
  And all the fat, skinny people 
Am                        C 
  And all the tall short, people 
Am                   G 
  And all the nobody people 
C                       D 
  And all the somebody people 
                                  Am      C 
  Never thought i'd need, so many people 
 
G 
  Girl my age went off her head 
Em 
  Hit some tiny children 
Am 
  And if the black hadn't have pulled her off 
          C 
  Then i think, she would have killed them 
 
G 
  Soldier with a broken arm 
Em 
  Used to stare into the wheels of a cadillac 
Am 
  Cop knelt to kiss the feet of a priest 
         C 
  And a queer threw up at the sight of that, well 
 
G 
  Think i saw you in an ice-cream parlour 
Em 
  Drinking milkshakes cold and long 
  Am 
  Smiling and waving and looking so fine 
 C 
  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 
  Am 
  Vour face, your waist, the way that you talk 
 C 
  I miss you you're beautiful 
 
G 
  We got five years stuck on my eyes 
Em 
  Five years, what a surprise, we got 
Am 
  Five years, my brain hurts alot 
C 
  Five years, that's all we got 
G                   ...G   
  We got, five years