Five Years-The Postmarks

[ti:Five Years] [ar:The Postmarks] [al:By The Numbers] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Five Years (五年) - The Postmarks [00:11.50]Pushing through the market square [00:15.79]So many mothers sighing [00:20.59]News had just come over [00:23.53]We had five years left to cry in [00:29.64]News guy wept and told us [00:33.32]Earth was really dying [00:37.99]Cried so much his face was wet [00:41.86]Then I knew he was not lying [00:46.63]I heard telephones [00:47.38] [00:48.47]Opera house favorite melodies [00:51.21]I saw boys toys [00:53.71]Electric irons and TV's [00:56.45]My brain hurt like a warehouse [00:57.70] [00:58.40]It had no room to spare [01:00.71]I had to cram so many things [01:02.64]To store everything in there [01:04.65]And all the fat skinny people [01:08.83]And all the tall short people [01:13.33]And all the nobody people [01:17.94]And all the somebody people [01:21.19]I never thought I'd need so many people [01:29.80]A girl my age went off her head [01:34.52]Hit some tiny children [01:39.02]If the black hadn't pulled her off [01:42.45]I think she would have killed them [01:48.29]A soldier with a broken arm [01:51.27]Fixed his stare to the wheels of a Cadillac [01:56.38]A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest [02:00.66]And a queer threw up at the sight of that [02:06.53]I think I saw you in an ice-cream parlor [02:11.31]Drinking milk shakes cold and long [02:14.74]Smiling and waving and looking so fine [02:19.34]Don't think you knew you were in this song [02:23.46]And it was cold and it rained so I felt like an actor [02:28.19]And I thought of ma and I wanted to get back there [02:33.12]Your face your race the way that you talk [02:37.80]I kiss you you're beautiful I want you to walk [02:41.86]We've got five years stuck on my eyes [02:47.28]Five years what a surprise [02:51.15]We've got five years my brain hurts a lot [02:55.96]Five years that's all we've got [03:00.64]We've got five years what a surprise [03:04.26]Five years stuck on my eyes [03:06.38]We've got five years my brain hurts a lot [03:11.18] [03:15.55]Five years that's all we've got [03:18.87]We've got five years stuck on my eyes [03:24.06]Five years what a surprise [03:28.17]We've got five years my brain hurts a lot [03:32.92]Five years that's all we've got [03:37.28] [03:37.95]We've got five years stuck on my eyes [03:42.32] [03:45.56]We've got five years my brain hurts a lot [03:51.98]Five years that's all we've got