Lyric 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