Brooklyn Roads lyrics

Artist  : Neil Diamond 
Song : 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