Brooklyn Roads (Original)-Neil Diamond

[ti:Brooklyn Roads] [ar:Neil Diamond] [al:The Neil Diamond Collection] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Brooklyn Roads (Original) - Neil Diamond (尼尔·戴蒙德) [00:03.21]Lyrics by：Tom Catalano [00:06.43]Composed by：Tom Catalano [00:09.64]If I close my eyes [00:11.48] [00:13.53]I can almost hear my mother [00:16.33] [00:17.66]Callin' "Neil go find your brother [00:20.36] [00:21.80]Daddy's home and it's time for supper [00:24.87]Hurry on" [00:25.83] [00:29.60]And I see two boys [00:31.46] [00:33.48]Racin' up two flights of staircase [00:36.40] [00:37.33]Squirmin' into Papa's embrace [00:40.53] [00:41.54]And his whiskers warm on their face [00:44.96]Where's it gone [00:46.22] [00:48.41]Oh where's it gone [00:50.45] [00:53.60]Two floors above the butcher [00:55.70] [00:57.43]First door on the right [00:58.90] [01:00.99]And life filled to the brim [01:02.92]As I stood by my window [01:05.50]And looked out on those [01:08.18] [01:10.02]Brooklyn Roads [01:12.17] [01:15.46]I can still recall [01:17.46] [01:19.50]The smells of cookin' in the hallways [01:22.62] [01:23.62]Rubbers drying in the doorways [01:26.58] [01:27.69]And report cards I was always [01:30.90]Afraid to show [01:32.38] [01:35.53]Mama'd come to school [01:37.55] [01:39.41]And as I sit there softly crying [01:42.44] [01:43.56]Teacher'd say "He's just not trying [01:46.45] [01:47.50]Got a good head if he'd apply it [01:50.73]But you know yourself [01:52.27] [01:54.14]It's always somewhere else" [01:56.35] [01:59.81]I built me a castle [02:01.42] [02:03.53]With dragons and kings [02:05.33] [02:07.50]And I'd ride off with them [02:09.36]As I stood by my window [02:11.70]And looked out on those [02:14.18] [02:16.21]Brooklyn roads [02:18.43] [02:39.38]Thought of going back [02:41.17] [02:43.07]But all I'd see are stranger's faces [02:46.27] [02:47.10]And all the scars that love erases [02:50.35] [02:51.05]But as my mind walks through those places [02:54.31]I'm wonderin' [02:55.72] [02:58.50]What's come of them [02:59.93] [03:03.59]Does some other young boy [03:05.35] [03:07.33]Come home to my room [03:08.99] [03:11.29]Does he dream what I did [03:12.85]As he stands by my window [03:15.31]And looks out on those [03:17.50] [03:19.79]Brooklyn roads [03:21.83] [03:24.11]Brooklyn roads