Five Years Songtext
von The Enemy

Pushing through the market square
So many mothers sighing
The 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, favorite melodies
I saw boys, toys, electric irons and 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
Never thought I′d need so many people


Girl my age went off her head
Hit some tiny children
If the black hadn't pulled her up
I think she would have killed them
Soldier with a broken arm
Fixed his stare to the wheels of a Cadillac
Cottonmouth 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 kissed you, you're beautiful, I want you to walk

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

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


We got five years
Five years
Five years
Five years
Five years
Five years
Five years
Five years, that′s all we got
We got five years