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Brooklyn Kids Lyrics
Girl lays on a white sheet
She's deep in a trance,
While her friends go out and dance
She's all alone don't ask me why
This kid from Brooklyn cries
Boy struts on a main street
He's dressed for effect
But his eye's reveal he's really wrecked
He's all alone don't ask me why
This kid from Brooklyn cries
And their both just a mile apart
Just streets away from a kindred heart
But there might as well
Be an ocean between them
There might as well
Be an ocean between them
You and me just can't relate
We got love given on a plate
Is it luck or is it fate
Were not alone
Same girl in the sunshine
Such a perfect shape
But he can't talk, he just has to gape
She walks alone don't ask me why
This kid from Brooklyn cries
Same boy doing cell time
Head in his hands
Pickup didn't go quiet as he planned
He feels alone don't ask me why
This kid from Brooklyn cries
And their both just a mile apart
Just streets away from a kindred heart
But there might as well
Be an ocean between them
Yes there might as well
Be an ocean between them
She's deep in a trance,
While her friends go out and dance
She's all alone don't ask me why
This kid from Brooklyn cries
He's dressed for effect
But his eye's reveal he's really wrecked
He's all alone don't ask me why
This kid from Brooklyn cries
Just streets away from a kindred heart
But there might as well
Be an ocean between them
There might as well
Be an ocean between them
We got love given on a plate
Is it luck or is it fate
Were not alone
Such a perfect shape
But he can't talk, he just has to gape
She walks alone don't ask me why
This kid from Brooklyn cries
Head in his hands
Pickup didn't go quiet as he planned
He feels alone don't ask me why
This kid from Brooklyn cries
Just streets away from a kindred heart
But there might as well
Be an ocean between them
Yes there might as well
Be an ocean between them

“I had a nasty vision one sunny afternoon-a beautiful girl walked past my studio window in a white dress. Behind her walked a young black kid; hip and hungry. Their relative states of self-absorption produced the idea of the rape of a lonely girl by a lonely man. The piano demo was enhanced by a beautiful orchestral arrangement by Ted Astley ( my father-in-law)”
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