Five Years
David Bowie
Five Years
|:G | | | G F# |bass
Pushing through the market square,
A girl my age went off her head
|Em | | | |
so many mothers sighing
hit some tiny children (no C 2nd time)
|A | | | G A |
News had just come over we had
If the black had not pulled her off I
|C | | |C Bm Am |
five years left to cry in
think she would have killed them
|G | | | G F#|
News guy wept and told us
A soldier with a broken arm fixed his
|Em | | | |
Earth was really dying
stare to the wheels of a Cadillac
|A | | | G A |
Cried so much his face was wet, then I
A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest and a
|C | | | C Bm Am |
knew he was not lying I heard
queer threw up at the sight of that
|G | | | Bm F#m |
telephones opera house, favourite melodies I saw
I think I saw you in an ice cream parlour
|Em | | | |
boys, toys electric irons and T.V's My
drinking milk shakes cold and long
|A | | | |
brain hurt like a warehouse, it had no room to spare..... I had to
Smiling and waving and looking so fine
|C | | | |
I had to cram so many things to store evrything in there and all the fat
Don't think you knew you were in this song |(next section)
|Am | |C | |
skinny people and all the tall short
|Am | |C | C Bm Am |
people And all the no bod y
|G | |C | G Am |
people and all the some bod y
|D7 | | | |
people I never thought I'd need so man y
|Am | |C | C Bm Am :|
people (back to start)
(Continued from above)
|C | | | C Bm Am |
Don't think you knew you were in this song And it was
|G | | | G F#m |
cold and it rained so I felt like an actor and I
|Em | | | |
thought of Ma and I wanted to get back there your
|A | | | |
face your race the way that you talk I
|C | | | |
kiss you, you're beautiful, I want you to walk We got
|:G | | | |
Five years stuck on my eyes
|Em | | | |
Five years what a surprise, We got
|A | | | |
Five years my brain hurts a lot We got
|C | | | :|
Five years that's all we've got We got 