Karaoké Brooklyn Roads 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 is it gone

Oh where is 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