JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - "Five Years" merupakan lagu David Bowie yang dirilis pada 1972.
Lagu ini dimuat dalam albumnya yang berjudul The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.
Album tersebut sempat menduduki peringkat ke-75 dalam chart Billboard 200 di US.
Baca juga: Lirik dan Chord Lagu Oh! You Pretty Things - David Bowie
Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu "Five Years" dari David Bowie.
G Em
Pushing through the market square, so many mothers sighing
A C
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
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
C
I had to cram so many things to store everything in there
Am C
And all the fat-skinny people,
Am C
and all the tall-short people,
G C
and all the nobody people,
D
and all the somebody people
Am C
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
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
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
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
C
I kiss you, you're beautiful, I want you to walk
G
We've got five years, stuck on my eyes
Em
Five years, what a surprise
A
We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot
C
Five years, that's all we've got
G
Five years, what a surprise
Em
We've got five years, stuck on my eyes
A
We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot
C
Five years, that's all we've got
G
We've got five years, stuck on my eyes
Em
Five years, what a surprise
A
We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot
C
Five years, that's all we've got
G
Five years, what a surprise
Em
Five years, stuck on my eyes
A
We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot
C
Five years, that's all we've got
G
Five years
Em
Five years
A
Five years
C
Five years!
G