Key: C minor
Verse 1
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after all.
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Brooklyn, city of dreams
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In the county of kings
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Brooklyn, city of dreams,
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in the county of kings
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The Minnesota towhead
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tells himself
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from the east bank of the
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East River
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The cold black hearts of Gotham proper
Are little more than hec
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Bridge
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And peddling off it
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He bobs his head, wants to beatbox
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Skid s through Dominican streets
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It's all overflowing,
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hydrant -slicked,
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some motion blur that splashes those with
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delicious views of McCarran Park
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from their tacky fiberglass balconies.
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watch the self -proclaimed, self -denied, angel -headed,
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flip -by, rush -to -rub elbows
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with someone supposed important in
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some way or other.
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and he is straining to overhear the elevator shaft conversation for the
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drunken stoop -pop psychology across Knickerbocker dressed in high hemlines
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and old Christmas lights out there
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in the drizzle smoking ci garettes
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swallows it says to himself
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This is Brooklyn, city of dreams,
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in the county of kings
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Brooklyn, city of dreams,
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Brooklyn, city of dreams,
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in the county of kings
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Brooklyn, City of Dreams,
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and the County of Kings.
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The would -be Robert Zimmerman
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meets wannabe Basquiats,
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spills seemingly Patti Smith's drinks,
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and they are all set for 16mm,
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made for YouTube,
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jumpy grainy shots of co -optation,
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making out in photo booths,
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wearing crowns past the brownstones
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rush past you in a ripe fall palette
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and you are chasing Walt Whitman with him through Fulton
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Mall to the bridge watch it grow more expensive
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throw more strollers
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crying on the R train
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even more as he is lulled
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By the wavering yellows
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Dying billboards
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From his vantage point,
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He mutters that he wants to paint it
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This fleeting bliss,
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five stories above streets
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Whose stories he does not know
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he would like to write this is
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Brooklyn city of dreams
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in the county of Kings
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G#
Brooklyn, city of dreams,
in the County of Kings.
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