Five Years - David Bowie
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Five Years
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Pus
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hing through t
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he market squa
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re,
A girl my age went off her head
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so many moth
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ers sighing
hit some tiny children (no C 2nd time)
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News had just
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come over
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we ha
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d
If the black had not pulled her off I
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five years
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le
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ft to cry
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in
think she would have killed them
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News
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guy wept and
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told us
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A soldier with a broken arm fixed his
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Earth
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was rea
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lly dyin
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g
stare to the wheels of a Cadillac
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Cried
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so much his
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face was wet,
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then
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I
A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest and a
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knew
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he w
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as not lyin
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g
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I heard
queer threw up at the sight of that
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telephones
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opera hou
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se, favou
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rite melodies
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I saw
I think I saw you in an ice cream parlour
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boys,
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toys elec
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tric iron
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s and T.V's
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My
drinking milk shakes cold and long
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brain hurt li
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ke a warehouse
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, it had no ro
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om to spare...
.. I had
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to
Smiling and waving and looking so fine
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I had to cram
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so many things
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to store evry
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thing in there
and all the f
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at
Don't think you knew you were in this song |(next section)
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skinny people
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and all the t
all short
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people
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And all the n
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o bod y
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people
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and all the so
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me bod y
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people
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I nev
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er thought I'd
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need
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so man y
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people
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(back to start
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(Continued from above)
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Don't think yo
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u knew yo
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u were in this
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song
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And it was
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cold an
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d it rained
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so I felt
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like an a
ctor and
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I
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thought
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of Ma
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and I want
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ed to get b
ack there you
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r
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face
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your race
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the way
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that you t
alk
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I
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kiss you, you
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're beautiful
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, I wan
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t you to w
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alk We got
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Five
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years
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stu
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ck on my e
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yes
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Five
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years
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wh
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at a surpri
se, We go
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t
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Five
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years
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my brai
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n hurts a lot
We go
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t
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Five
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years
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that'
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s all we've go
t We go
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