Brooklin Road Lyrics

Brooklin Road

Brooklyn Road

 Neil Diamond

 

 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

 Life filled to the brim

 As I stood by my window

 And I looked out of 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'd sit there softly crying

 Teacher'd say, "He's just not trying

 He's 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 thoses 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

 

 From: sergio souza