Five Years Cowboy Junkies

[00:14.10] Pushing through the market square [00:18.84] So many mothers sighing [00:23.85] News just come over [00:27.70] We had five years left to cry in [00:34.32] News guy wept and told us [00:38.82] Earth was really dying [00:44.25] Cried so much, his face was wet [00:48.42] Then I knew he was not lying [00:53.56] I heard telephones, opera house, even melodies [00:58.80] I saw boys, toys, electric irons and TV's [01:04.29] My brain hurt like a warehouse, it had no room to spare [01:09.05] I had to cram so many things to store everything in there [01:14.18] And all the fat, skinny people [01:18.39] And all the tall, short people [01:23.35] And all the nobody people [01:28.44] And all the somebody people [01:32.54] Never thought I'd need so many people [01:41.14] A girl my age went off her head [01:46.34] Hit some tiny children [01:51.48] If the black hadn't have pulled her off [01:55.44] I think she would have killed them [02:01.51] A soldier with a broken arm [02:05.37] Fixed his stare to the wheels of a Cadillac [02:11.92] A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest [02:16.12] And a queer threw up at the sight of that [02:22.24] I think I saw you in an ice-cream parlour [02:27.36] Drinking milkshakes cold and long [02:31.88] Smiling and waving and looking so fine [02:37.79] I don't think you knew you were in this song [02:41.78] And it was cold and it rained, I felt like an actor [02:46.82] 'Til thought of ma and I wanted to get back there [02:52.32] Your face, your race, the way that you talk [02:57.68] I kiss you, you're beautiful, I want you to walk [03:02.38] We've got five years, stuck on my eyes [03:07.80] Five years, what a surprise [03:12.30] We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot [03:18.26] Five years, that's all we've got [03:22.73] We've got five years, stuck on my eyes [03:28.56] Five years, what a surprise [03:33.12] We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot [03:38.65] Five years, that's all we've got [03:43.25] We've got five years [03:49.28] Five years, what a surprise [03:53.37] We've got five years [03:59.16] Five years, that's all we've got [04:04.27] Five years [04:07.36] They got five years [04:08.84]