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Pushing through the market squareSo many mothers sighingNews had just come overWe had five years left to cry inNews guy wept and told usEarth she was really dyingCried so much his face was wetWell, I knew he wasn't lyingI heard telephones, opera house, favorite melodiesI saw boys and toys, electric irons, TVsMy brain felt like a warehouse it had no room to spareLetras de cancionesI had to cram so many things to store everything in thereAnd all the fat, skinny peopleAnd all the tall, short peopleAnd all the nobody peopleAnd all the somebody peopleChrist, I never thought I'd need so many peopleGirl my age went off her headShe hit some tiny childrenAnd if the black hadn't pulled her offThen I think I know she would have killed themI saw a soldier with a broken armStaring to the wheels of a CadillacA cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priestAnd a queer well he threw up at the sight of thatI think I saw you in an ice-cream parlorDrinking milk shakes cold and longSmiling and waving and looking so fineI don't think you knew you were in this songAnd it was cold and it rained so I felt like an actorAnd I thought of ma and I wanted to get back thereYour face, your ace, the way that you talkWell, I kiss you, you're beautiful, I want you to walkWe got five years, stuck on my eyesFive years, what a surpriseFive years, my brain hurts a lotWe got five years, that's all we've gotFive years, that's all we've gotFive yearsFive yearsFive yearsFive yearsFive yearsFive yearsFive yearsFive yearsFive yearsFive yearsFive yearsFive yearsFive yearsFive yearsFive yearsFive years From Letras Mania