Five Years Akor

 

pushing through the market square

 

so many mothers sighing

 

news had just come over, we have

 

Five years left of crying

 

news guy wept and told us

 

he said 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

 

there were boys toys, electric guns 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

 

and if the black hadn't have pulled her off

 

then i think, she would have killed them

 

soldier with a broken arm

 

used to stare into the wheels of a cadillac

 

cop knelt to kiss the feet of a priest

 

and a queer threw up at the sight of that, well

 

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 waist, the way that you talk

 

i miss you you're beautiful

 

we got five years stuck on my eyes

 

five years, what a surprise, we got

 

five years, my brain hurts alot

 

five years, that's all we got

 

we got, five years