Five Years ─ 5年真長，4年就好...－RocketBabyDolls

By David Bowie
(1972年，The Rise & The Fall Of Ziggy Stardust)

Pushing thru the market square
so many mothers sighing
News had just come over,
we had five years left to cry in

News guy wept and told us
earth was really dying
Cried so much his face was wet
then I knew he was not lying

I heard telephones, opera house, favourite melodies
I saw boys, toys electric irons and T.V.'s
My brain hurt 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 all the tall-short people
And all the nobody people, and all the somebody people
I never thought I'd need so many people

A girl my age went off her head
hit some tiny children
If the black hadn't a-pulled her off, I think she would have killed them

A soldier with a broken arm, fixed his stare to the wheel of a Cadillac
A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest
and a queer threw up at the sight of that
I think I saw you in an ice-cream parlour
drinking milk shakes cold and long
Smiling and waving and looking so fine
don't think you knew you were in this 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 race, the way that you talk
I kiss you, you're beautiful, I want you to walk

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

不得不承認，最近聽歌很有政治味...

David Bowie在寫這首歌的時候，還是在我還沒出生、年代還很久遠的時候。在那時候，這首歌的意義有多大，我不了解。看是看看我們現在身處的世界，"earth was really dying"是多麼駭人的事實。

David不只是個變色龍，更是個先知，在他塗抹著艷妝的臉下，還有一件件奇異妖艷的衣服底下，他的靈魂看見，可怖的人性將會把這個世界搞砸。

只剩下五年的時間，我們會要求什麼