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Brooklyn Boy Tab

by Kevin Devine


                            
Brooklyn boy, born and raised, chopping lines
                              
hey hey, it's my birthday
                                    
it's a toy I torched, a tar pit flame, a lockjaw night
                             
hey hey, it's my birthday



                              
dead end friends that make your stomach shake
                                         
while your hissing head barrels down that blakened lane
                                         
alone at last to figure how you got this way
                                 
alone at last to figure how you got this way



                             
charcoal clouds spot and spray, they kill the sun
                                
hey hey, hear its back break
                                 
so I can never tell night from day
                      
or right from wrong,
                            
hey hey, you're my headache




                                     
your silver tongue it masks your hungry hate
                                                         
while your haggard heart whispers through its cracking cage
                                                       
you still can change, you have to know, you still can change
                                     
I know, I know, but now I wanna be this way




                                            
this was a choice, this was never a mistake
                           
this was never a mistake
                                 
Yeah, this was never a mis-tak-e,


                 
 Ooh oh ooh whoa oh  (x3)