Five Years (alternative) Songtext
von Alpaca Ensemble

Pushing through the market square
So many mothers sighing
You said just come over
We had five years left to crying
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
I saw boys, toys, electric irons and TVs
My brain hurt like a warehouse, it had no room to spare
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


Five more years
Five more years
Five more years
Five more years
Five more years
Five more years
Five more years
Five more years

A girl my age went off her head
Hit some tiny children
If the Black hadn't pulled her off
I think she would have killed them
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 the queer threw up at the sight of that

I think I saw you at 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 grace, the way that you talk
I kiss you, you're beautiful, I want you to walk

We've got five years, stuck on my eyes
Five years, what a surprise
We′ve got five years, my brain hurts a lot


Five years, that′s all we've got
We′ve got five years, stuck on my eyes

Five years, what a surprise
We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot

Five years, that′s all we've got
We′ve got five years, stuck on my eyes
Five years, what a surprise
We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot
Five years, that's all we′ve got
We′ve got five years, stuck on my eyes
Five years, what a surprise
We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot

Five years, that′s all we've got
We′ve got five years, stuck on my eyes
Five years, what a surprise
We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot

Five years, that′s all we've got

We've got five years
Five years
Five years
Five years
That′s all we′ve got
Five more years
Five more years
Five more years
Five more years