Five Years (Live, Utrecht, 1993)

Pushing through the market square

So many mothers sighing

The news had just come over

We had five years led to crying

A news guy wept and told us

That earth, she was really dying

He cried so much that his face was wet

I knew he wasn't lying

I heard telephones, opera house, favourite melodies

I saw boys and toys, electric irons, TVs

My brain felt 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 the tall, short people

And all the nobody people

Were all somebody people

I never thought I'd need so many people

A girl my age went off her head

She had some tiny children

And if the black hadn't pulled her up

Then I think I know who she'd have killed

I saw a soldier with a broken arm

Stare into the wheels of a Cadillac

A continent kissed a female priest

And the queer went into a decided act

I think I saw you in an ice cream parlour

Drinking milkshakes cool and long

Smiling and waving and looking so fine

I don't think you knew that you were in a 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 ace, the way that you talk

I kiss you, you're beautiful, I want you all

We got five years, stop all my eyes

Five years, what a surprise

Five years, my brain hurts a lot

We got five years, that's all we got

That's all we got

That's all we got

Five years, five years

This is the last night in Utrecht, Holland. As always, this place

Is a pilgrimage to us. It's one of our homes on the tour. You're

Like, part of the family. And tonight, for giving us a truly

Exceptional night, I want to thank you for your voices, and for

Your hands, and your feet, and your hearts, and the atmosphere

That you give us here. You've given us a great memory to take

Home with us. We'll see all of you, or some of you, at Park Pop

In the summer. But until then, a very sincere thank you. Just

Take care and stay alive, it's a shitty world right now. Goodbye

We got five years

We got five years

We got five years

We got five years

That's all we got, you know we got, you know we got

Five years

We got five years

We got five years

We got five years

Utrecht, come on

Five years

Everybody, come on

Five years

Five years

Five years

That's all we got, you know we got, you know we got

Five years

That's all we got

That's all we got

That's all we got

That's all we got

That's all we got

That's all we got

That's all we got

We got five years

We got five years

We got five years

Frank Usher, Fuzz Patterson, David Payton

Kevin Mogensen, Robin Bolton, and myself, the Fish

That's all we got

Take care, stay alive, we'll see you in the summer

Goodnight