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NEIL DIAMOND lyrics : "Brooklyn Roads"

If I close my eyes
I can almost hear my mother
Callin', "Neil go find your brother

Daddy's home, and it's time for supper
Hurry on."


And I see two boys
Racin' up two flights of staircase
Squirmin' into Papa's embrace

And his whiskers warm on their face
Where's it gone?
Oh, where's it gone?


Two floors above the butcher
First door on the right

And life filled to the brim
As I stood by my window
And looked out on those

Brooklyn Roads

I can still recall

The smells of cookin' in the hallways
Rubbers drying in the doorways
And report cards I was always

Afraid to show

Mama'd come to school

And as I sit there softly crying
Teacher'd say, "He's just not trying
Got a good head if he'd apply it

But you know yourself,
It's always somewhere else."


I built me a castle
With dragons and kings
And I'd ride off with them

As I stood by my window
And looked out on those
Brooklyn roads


Thought of going back
But all I'd see are stranger's faces

And all the scars that love erases
But as my mind walks through those places
I'm wonderin',

What's come of them?

Does some other young boy

Come home to my room
Does he dream what I did
As he stands by my window

And looks out on those
Brooklyn roads
Brooklyn roads

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