David Bowie - Five Years The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972) Chords: G - x55433 Em - 022000 A - x02220 C/G - 332010 Am - x02210 D7 - xx0212 G Em Pushing through the market square, so many mothers sighing A C/G News had just come over, we had five years left to cry in G Em News guy wept and told us, earth was really dying A C/G Cried so much his face was wet, then I knew he was not lying G I heard telephones, opera house, favorite melodies Em I saw boys, toys, electric irons and T.V.'s A My brain hurt like a warehouse, it had no room to spare G/C I had to cram so many things to store everything in there Am C/G And all the fat-skinny people, Am C/G and all the tall-short people, G C/G and all the nobody people, D7 and all the somebody people Am C/G I never thought I'd need so many people G Em A girl my age went off her head, hit some tiny children A C/G If the black hadn't a-pulled her off, I think she would have killed them G Em A soldier with a broken arm, fixed his stare to the wheels of a Cadillac A C/G A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest,and a queer Threw up at the sight of that G Em I think I saw you in an ice-cream parlor, drinking milk shakes cold and long A C/G Smiling and waving and looking so fine, don't think You knew you were in this song G And it was cold and it rained so I felt like an actor Em And I thought of Ma and I wanted to get back there A Your face, your race, the way that you talk G/C I kiss you, you're beautiful, I want you to walk G We've got five years, stuck on my eyes E We've got five years, what a surprise A We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot G/C We've got five years, that's all we've got
