Five Years chords by
David Bowie
Lou Reed

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Key: G major•

Intro 1

G

G

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Em

Em

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G

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Em

Em

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G

G

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Verse 1
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Pushing through the market
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square
A A 
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So many mothers sighing
(sighing)
News had just come over
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C C 
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We had five years left to cry in (cry in)
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News guy wept and told us
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A A 
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Earth was really dying (dying)
Cried so much his face was wet
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C C 
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Then I knew he was not lying (lying)

Verse 2
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I heard telephones, opera house,
favorite melodies
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I saw boys, toys, electric irons and TV's
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My brain hurt like a warehouse,
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A A 
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it had no room to spare
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I had to cram so many things
to store everything in there
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C C 
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And all the fat, skinny people
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And all the tall, short people
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C C 
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And all the nobody people
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And all the somebody people
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I never thought I'd need so many people

Verse 3
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A  girl my age went
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off her head
Hit some tiny children
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If the Black hadn't have pulled her off
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I think she would have killed them
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A soldier with a broken arm
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Fixed his stare to the wheels of a Cadillac
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A  cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest
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And a queer threw up at the sight of that
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I think I saw you in an ice-
cream parlor
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Drinking milk shakes cold and long
A A 
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Smiling and waving and looking so fine
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Don't think you knew
you were in this song
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And it was cold and it rained,
so I felt like an actor
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And I thought of Ma and
I wanted to get back there
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Your face, your race, the way that you talk
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I kiss you, you're beautiful,
I want you to walk

Verse 4

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We've got five years, stuck on my eyes

Em

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Five years, what a surprise

A

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We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot

C

C

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Five years, that's all we've got

Verse 5

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We've got five years, what a surprise

Em

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Five years, stuck on my eyes

A

A

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We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot

C

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Five years, that's all we've got

Verse 6

G

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We've got five years, stuck on my eyes

Em

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Five years, what a surprise

A

A

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We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot

C

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Five years, that's all we've got

Verse 7
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We've got five years, what a surprise
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We've got five years,
stuck on my eyes
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We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot
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Five years, that's all we've got

Verse 8

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Five years

Em

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Five years

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Five years

C

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Five years

Outro 1

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