Brooklyn Roads-Neil Diamond

[00:11.73]If I close my eyes [00:15.54]I can almost hear my mother [00:18.22] [00:19.65]Callin, neil, go find your brother [00:22.27] [00:23.77]Daddys home, and its time for supper [00:27.14]Hurry on [00:27.89] [00:31.64]And I see two boys [00:33.45] [00:35.57]Racin up two flights of staircase [00:38.77] [00:39.50]Squirmin into papas embrace [00:42.67] [00:43.68]And his whiskers warm on their face [00:47.05]Wheres it gone [00:48.19] [00:50.68]Oh, wheres it gone [00:52.29] [00:55.67]Two floors above the butcher [00:57.67] [00:59.48]First door on the right [01:01.16] [01:03.28]Life filled to the brim [01:05.28]As I stood by my window [01:07.90]And looked out on those [01:10.76] [01:12.20]Brooklyn roads [01:14.41] [01:17.78]I can still recall [01:19.56] [01:21.68]The smell of cookin in the hallways [01:24.75] [01:25.88]Rubber drying in the doorways [01:28.67] [01:29.81]And report cards I was always [01:33.35]Afraid to show [01:34.42] [01:37.92]Mamad come to school [01:39.59] [01:41.59]And as Id sit there softly crying [01:45.16] [01:46.08]Teacherd say, hes just not trying [01:48.70] [01:49.84]Hes got a good head if hed apply it [01:52.93]But you know yourself [01:54.35] [01:56.56]Its always somewhere else [01:58.68] [02:01.98]I built me a castle [02:03.79] [02:05.99]With dragons and kings [02:07.60] [02:09.98]And Id ride off with them [02:11.79]As I stood by my window [02:14.29]And looked out on those [02:15.96] [02:18.40]Brooklyn roads [02:20.84] [02:41.69]Thought of going back [02:43.38] [02:45.57]But all Id see are strangers faces [02:48.35] [02:49.55]And all the scars that love erases [02:52.55] [02:53.49]But as my mind walks thru those places [02:56.55]Im wonderin [02:58.11] [03:00.73]Whats come of them [03:02.16] [03:05.91]Does some other young boy [03:07.60] [03:09.59]Come home to my room [03:11.28] [03:13.58]Does he dream what I did [03:15.27]As he stands by my window [03:17.67]And looks out on those [03:19.93] [03:22.13]Brooklyn roads [03:24.70]