Brooklyn Roads (Live At Civic Auditorium / 1971)

Brooklyn Roads (Live At Civic Auditorium / 1971) - Neil Diamond (尼爾·戴蒙德)

Written by：Neil Diamon

If I close my eyes

I can almost hear my mother

Calling 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

Where's 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 I looked out of those

Brooklyn roads

I can still recall

The smells of cooking 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 wondering

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