Brooklyn Roads Lyrics

Brooklyn Roads

Written by: 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 looked out on those
Brooklyn Roads

I can still
recall
The smell of cookin' in the hallways
Rubber 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 strangers' faces
And all the scars that love
erases
But as my mind walks thru 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